building a recession - proof soa strategy
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Building a Recession-Proof SOA Strategy
Michael Coté, RedMonk
1Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Save Yourself (First)
• Make sure IT is safe & secure
• Prove your worth to the business often
• Use IT to make the company money
2Tuesday, December 9, 2008
You still need to deliver
• “Customers” expect to notice what you “sell” them
• “What have you done for me lately”
• You can’t let yourself become a “utility”
3Tuesday, December 9, 2008
What’s different?
• Less slack...
• ...for longer projects & cycles
• ...for speculative projects
• ...for doing the same thing over-and-over
• To survive, being useful is the best strategy
4Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Cost, Profit, & Strategy
• “The Business” speaks in terms of money
• IT can help make money and enable strategies
• IT needs controls, knowledge, & governance
• Lean enterprise architecture
5Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Washing up SOA
• The original goals of SOA fit these needs well
• Enterprise software takes time to get right
• While it’s not the time to be a test run, “SOA” is now old
6Tuesday, December 9, 2008
A Brief History of SOA
• From the web
• WS-* → WS-Deathstar
• REST
• ESBs
7Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Where we are now
1. Open source is mature and “normal” - use it & use it tactically
2. SOA to open up opaque silos - doing more with the same
3. Simplicity means less overhead to deal with in the IT service life-cycle
8Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Waiting for the gravy train
• This simplicity gives you the strategic space to hold out until good times return
• Build room to explore quick and easy projects
• Take advantage of a more connected world
• Examples: Amazon AWS,Tesco API, retro-fitting PCI
9Tuesday, December 9, 2008
While you’re waiting
• Re-evaluate your priorities & projects with the new demand for lower cost
• Show your worth and the right to get funding
• Find top areas of complexity; can they be simplified; should they stay complex?
• Remember the goals of SOA - don’t throw out the baby
10Tuesday, December 9, 2008
3 Things To Do Right Now
1. Portfolio analysis for what you need vs. what you desire
2. Determine if you know what you have, and start building a repository if you don’t
3. How can you do more with the same?
11Tuesday, December 9, 2008
ContactMichael Coté
512.795.4307
Thank you!http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
License
12Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Credits & Co.• Building: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2944163398/
• Slack: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clango/2205261045/
• Red Card Wash: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortyseven/2795192714/
• WS-Deathstar Book: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/2217422218/
• WS-Deathstar: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1428661128/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_Law
• Road with leaves: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2943301423/
• Car on road: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2774172616/
• Slavic whiteboard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/132018687/
• Cages & Jersey Walls: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2950988955/
13Tuesday, December 9, 2008