Sluggish Economy May Spur More, but Smaller, SOA Projects
"There’s a debate as to whether a slow economy would help or hurt SOA.
It’s worth noting that the case for SOA, in tandem with Web services,
was forged during the worst IT spending slump in a generation — the
2000-2002 time period. Companies and IT professionals were attracted to
the SOA/Web services concepts because they offered the attractive
advantage of building or exposing existing applications at minimal cost
and disruption. As the economy went into growth mode, SOA was
increasingly pitched as a growth agent. If things slow down again, we
may see SOA return to its roots — the cost-savings/economies-of-scale
mode of thinking."
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Enterprise Architecture and Death by Planning
"Many projects fail from over planning. Over planning often occurs as a
result of cost tracking and staff utilization monitoring. The two types
of over planning are known as the Glass Case Plan and Detailitis Plan.
The Glass Case Plan is a subset of the Detailitis Plan in that (over)
planning ceases once the project starts. In the Detailitis Plan, over
planning continues until the project ceases to exist, for a variety of
unfulfilling reasons."
Enterprise Decision Management and the Future of Application Development
"...EDM addresses (or helps address) some of the problems of human
interactions caused by the differences between business people and
technical people. By providing a way for business and IT folks to
collaborate on applications, especially on the core decisions within
them, EDM paves the way for business-driven ownership of application
development and evolution."
Survey: Your IT Leaders are an Antsy Bunch
"A Harvey Nash/KMPG survey of 258 respondents paints a twisted picture
for CIOs and IT leaders. Simply put, they are an antsy crowd that has
one eye on the exit. They crave to become more “strategic” to the
business, but 31 percent of them can’t deliver a project on time.
Almost half of them miss their budget targets."
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