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The Promise of SOA Continued: Project Management and SDLC Practices to Utilize SOA

In my first post on the promise of SOA, one of the constraining organizational factors that prevents full realization of the benefits of SOA investments I mentioned was:

Project management methodologies and software development processes that are based on waterfall approaches to building software and usually highly dependent on integrated testing.

Large enterprises usually have well-established project

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Flexible IT, SOA and Solving the Real Problem

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is going to save us all.  We all know the drill:  Faster time-to-market.  Lower total cost of ownership.  Loose coupling makes integrating or re-wiring existing capabilities faster and adding new features easier.

Except that in most large companies, just doing SOA doesn’t do any of these things.  In reality, sub-optimal time-to-market and

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