ArchitecturePlus Seminar December 19, 2006 (3CI2)
Purpose and Outcomes of Town Hall: (3CH4)
- 1. Why we are here: (3CH5)
- Federal Departments are driving increasing levels of sharing, including moving towards Service Oriented Architecture-based approaches (3CH6)
- EA and the FEA have established the structured foundation for agencies to link their technology strategy to their business/program strategies (3CH7)
- EA provides the building blocks to identify key services that can be shared and increasingly identified as candidates for service oriented for reuse and leveraging (3CH8)
- While the technology involved is maturing nicely, there is a need to establish a best practices management framework for around governance for shared services with an emphasis on laying the groundwork to enable sharing and reuse of SOA-based services across (Government) organizational boundaries (3CH9)
- The business benefits for leveraging common services, service component reuse and a service orientation are substantial. (3CHA)
- Agency Executives, program managers, Enterprise Architects, Application Architects, and Data Architects Need SOA information and approaches to be successful (3CHB)
- Much vendor hype around SOA; how do we sort it out and help agencies decide how and when to move to SOA? (3CHC)
- How do agencies evolve effectively toward SOA using their EA? (3CHD)
- Can we identify pre-requisites in terms of governance processes and practices that need to be in place before it is prudent to try to deploy SOA-based applications? Can we tune this in terms of making sure to link the benefits promised in the business case with necessary operating governance? (3CHE)
- Agencies and their key IT players need consolidated information to help make informed decisions (3CHF)
- The AIC Leadership has requested a coordinated approach to addressing the challenges of SOA implementation in the Federal government. (3CHG)
- AIC subcommittees, the Best Practices Committee and the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) are joining together to deal with these challenges. (3CHH)
- The approach chosen is to develop a Practical Guide to Federal SOA Implementation as a joint effort (3CHI)
- A companion piece will be a composite SOA Maturity Framework that will outline the evolving stages of SOA implementation maturity tied to the key issues to be addressed that are discussed in the Practical Guide (3CHJ)
- Federal Departments are driving increasing levels of sharing, including moving towards Service Oriented Architecture-based approaches (3CH6)
- 2. Where have we come from and where are we going: (3CHK)
- Historical perspective and linkage with other EA/CIO Council efforts: (3CHL)
- What is the path forward: (3CHS)
- Series of Meetings on SOA this Coming Year so continue to develop understanding and guidance. (3CHT)
- SOA Joint Task Force to coordinate information gathering for and development of a Practical Guide for SOA Implementation. (3CHU)
- This is the first in a series of ArchitecturePlus meetings to help gather input to this development. (3CHV)
- Invite Your Suggestions for SOA Information and the Guide. (3CHW)
- Capture the SOA Information and Discussion in the Wiki. (3CHX)
- 3. What are the outcomes we want to achieve: (3CHY)
- Development of useful information and guidance on SOA implementation that can help agency executives, CIO’s, Chief Architects, application/data/infrastructure architects. (3CHZ)
- Organize this information into a useful guide (A Practical Guide) that is easy to use, process oriented and helpful. (3CI0)
- Integrate the Practical Guide with a straightforward SOA Maturity Framework to give users a clear implementation roadmap. (3CI1)