enterprise engineering

enterprise engineering

     I have witnessed a trend in one large enterprise that I suspect may occur in many others.  This is trend revolves around how some people, enterprise engineers and chief architects, try explain SOA concepts to the common SOA practitioner.  This particular enterprise traditionally has been involved with developing some rather LARGE and CRITICAL enterprise architectures for its customers.  Now dont get me wrong they have done tremendous work, but now as they begin to develop a strategic approach for SOA that can be used on all of their projects there are some people who try to use extremely high-level and technical rhetoric to explain SOA concepts to the common practitioner.  Granted these are extremely bright people, but they seem to have difficulty reaching the masses.  They want to utilize traditional enterprise engineering speak to explain things to those responsible for executing, implementing, SOA on enterprise engineering      So I interviewed a few of those responsible SOA practitioners, and my fear was realized.  The information that I received was all of similar flavor, "Im confused", "What does that mean", "How do I use that artifact on my project", "These are too academic", or "I cant use this".  So I went a read some of the documents that mentioned as causing the most confusion, the widest divide, and I was able to see where these documents would be confusing to your average SOA practitioner.  For someone new to the SOA paradigm these documents could be overwhelming, and could seem like over kill.  The content in these document wasnt necessarily incorrect, actually was all quite good, but the manner in which was stated could have been simpler.  Those responsible implementing SOA need guidance that they could apply immediately and they need it in plain "English".  So I would encourage those people responsible for devising the SOA strategy for your organization to be cautious of how you present guidance to the practitioners, let alone the executive management staff.  I like to adhere to the KISS principle as much as possible, but thats just me.

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Post je objavljen 25.01.2008. u 21:46 sati.