Updated! 3-day Session - Strategies for implementing the service-oriented enterprise

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Day 1 – Service-Oriented Architecture Strategies

1. Services-oriented Strategies for Enterprise Transformation.
    Enabling services innovation.

• Service thinking: Why it matters to the business, clients/citizens, and IT
  - Leveraging business capabilities for services innovation
• Business and technical perspectives of a service
  - Business-aligned capability and discoverable services asset
• An emerging perspective in service design
  - The client/citizen service journey
  - Critical encounters over multiple paths
• Evolving roles in the service-oriented enterprise

• The promise of the agile enterprise
  - Reusable services to render business-aligned capabilities
• Enterprise cost benefits
  - Reducing IT costs
  - Achieving re-use & ROI
  - A portfolio of assets
• Cloud computing – Cost and responsiveness implications
• Service-oriented enterprise maturity and adoption

3. Characteristics of a services architecture.
     Interaction with the environment.

• What is a service?
  - Business-aligned capability  – interfaces, functionality, protocols, policies,
  constraints and quality
  - Services layering
  - Producers and consumers of services
  - Some examples of services
  
• SOA design principles
  - Loose coupling
  - Coarse granularity
  - High cohesion
  - Information hiding
• Components of a Service-Oriented Architecture
  - A run time perspective
  - Repository, messaging, mediation systems, and service platform

4. A world of services.
    Service identification from up here.

• What’s the immediate business problem?
• Services centricity – Process, Data, Consumer, and Legacy Applications
• Services identification approaches:
  - Top-down – business domain decomposition
  - Meet-in-the-Middle – the focus on asset analysis
  - Bottom-up – legacy wrapping
• The services lifecycle:
  - From business transformation to SOA deployment and operation
• The critical role of business processes and enterprise semantics

5. Business Capability Analysis. Modeling business processes.
    The starting point for detailed services identification.

• The rise of Business Process Management and BPM tools
  - Abstracting the business
  - Why it’s much, much more than workflow diagrams
• Analyzing the business:
  - Modeling and simulating current and future business processes
  - Lean analysis for enhanced business processes
  - Models – business process, use cases, data, user interface, etc.
• From business models to software design models (UML)
  - Abstracting the IT solution
  - Complex transformations to business-driven service specifications
  - The emerging SoaML

Days 2 & 3 –Implementing SOA Design & Governance

1. SOA Strategy & Opportunity Roadmap.
    Hot Spot Analysis.

• The business process portfolio
• Value chain analysis
• The challenges of SOA:
  - Stove piped applications
  - Data sharing
  - Replacing point to point interfaces
  - Why standards are key
• SOA Life Cycle: What's so different about services?
  

2. Implementing the Service-oriented Enterprise.
    Balancing short term and long term deliverables.

• A pre-flight check
  - Strategy development
  - Governance and technical reference
  - Developing a reference model
  - Implementation
  - Organization
  - Roles and responsibilities

• Service Design: High level design
• Quad Model of SOA
• Services layers and taxonomy
• Overview of a service modeling technique

• Elements of service design governance
  - Separation of concerns
  - Design principles – loosely coupled services
  - Choreography and orchestration – BPEL to the rescue
• Service implementation steps & technologies:
  - Namespaces, XSD, XSL, Xpath, SOAP, etc.
  - WSDL – Web Services Description Language
  - The service contract
  - Security policies
  
• SOA Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

5. Optimizing SOA performance.
    A look at enabling enterprise tools.

• Design time: Registry and Repository
• Run time: Enterprise service management
  

6. Publishing, deployment and service consumption.
    Building the environment for survival.

• A governance process- understanding policy enforcement points
• An example review and approval process
• Services consumption
• The challenge of service version management

7. An SOA governance model.
    Developing a sustainable framework.

• SOA Governance Reference Model
• Four tiers of governance
• Model design
• Enterprise governance processes & portfolios
• The governance organization - who does what?
• Governance implementation roadmaps
• Security and data issues for cloud computing

8. Service Portfolio Management.
    Establishing lifecycle values.

• Evaluate your SOA initiative
• Value-creating processes
• Value thresholds
• ROI for service re-use
• The value of a service
• Portfolio analysis

9. Managing the services enterprise.
     Evolving your ecosystem.

• Services as a portfolio of assets
• Determining the role of cloud computing in the portfolio
• Value profile of a service
• Evaluating services in the portfolio
• SOA funding & budgeting maturity model

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Day 1
1. Enabling services innovation
2. Faster, cheaper, more responsive
3. Interaction with the environment
4. Service identification from up here
5. The starting point for detailed services identification

Day 2 & 3
1. Hot Spot Analysis
2. Balancing short & long term deliverables
3. Creating agile structures
4. From service models to composite applications
5. A look at enabling enterprise tools
6. Building the environment for survival
7. Developing a sustainable framework
8. Establishing lifecycle values
9. Evolving your ecosystem

This lively and strategically-oriented session clarifies the best practices of SOA implementation and management. It is led by the eminent Bill Clarke - long time Intervista faculty member and managing partner at CheckPoint Partners consulting company. He was previously Senior Consultant for SOA Strategy with AgilePath Corporation.
He is a specialist in helping companies and government agencies transition to Service Oriented Architectures.

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