Track: SOA: Hits and Misses

Abstract: Your twenty-year old VAX BASIC monolith can't bear the burden of change; your database integration strategies are now mired in costly complexity. Things have got to change, but the way ahead looks grim: stop the world (ha!), or stumble, tactical fix-by-tactical fix, into oblivion. There is an alternative. In this session I'll describe some lightweight strategies, based on business capability modeling, Agile user stories and Domain Driven Design, that together help set a fledgling SOA initiative on the road to success. Along the way, I'll identify some of the misconceptions and dangers inherent in SOA as I've seen it practiced. I'll illustrate the good and the bad with case study material taken from financial services, utilities, entertainment and communications engagements.