SOA Manifesto published
popping..I was real happy with the results of the SOA Manifesto. Unlike the cloud computing manifesto that was created by vendors, this manifesto was created by practitioners with the goal of helping practitioners succeed. Much of the guiding principles of the manifesto echo many of the blog posts that I and many of my colleagues have been saying for several years now.
You can see the guiding principles here.
The following video shows the launch of the manifesto.
I especially like the priorities that were highlighted:
Through our work we have come to prioritize:
- Business value over technical strategy
- Strategic goals over project-specific benefits
- Intrinsic interoperability over custom integration
- Shared services over specific-purpose implementations
- Flexibility over optimization
- Evolutionary refinement over pursuit of initial perfection
That is, while we value the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
These priorities are true for any architecture, not just SOA. IT shops that pursue technical strategies without mapping them to business strategies are poster children for waste, IT failures, and the cause for businesses to look for solutions outside of IT.
My hats off to a job well done by the team. It is nice to see practitioners replace vendors as the experts on an all important topic like SOA. As I always say, SOA is not something you buy, it is something you do. And you don’t do it once and are done. It is a evolutionary process for architecting sound enterprise solutions.
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SOA is not something you do. SO is something you do. SOA is a class of architectures and we might measure an instance of a system and determine it is in fact of that class. So SOA is a sort of thing not a thing it and of itself. An instance of an SOA is created by applying the principle that underpin SO. And SO is a paradigm that frames what you do.
Neither can be bought.
Just a weeny clarification. But you thoughts are aligned with what we did of course.
Cheers
Steve T