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Pessoal,
uma das formas mais legais que já vi de ilustração sobre erros comuns em SOA.
Post escrito pelo Frank Kenney, mandando muito bem, pra variar.

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Ahh Shucks, SOA Is A Failure

November 12th, 2008 ·Frank Kenney

Yea, I feel your pain. So much time effort and money put into SOA and it is a complete a dismal failure. Sorry to have misled you. Daryl Plummer and I are deep in depression. Sucks to be us. Oh well here’s some free advice to help you get by. In fact I will make this very easy for you. All you have to do is copy and paste the following, substituting your name for the big red XXXX.

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To the CIO, CEO, CFO, CTO and shareholders,

As a result of the following I can now only deduce that SOA is a failure and any attempts at SOA will result in failure. Under my direction:

• I have failed to associate our SOA initiatives with our business needs, therefore I cannot show any value for the hundreds of services we have created ,
• I have failed to properly create and support an SOA Center of Excellence, Steering Committee or Competency Center,
• I have failed to enlist the executive staff as true supporters and evangelistscfor our SOA efforts.
• I chose to buy an ESB prior to truly understanding our SOA infrastructure needs (In reality this wasn’t my fault, the vendor said it was super duper necessary)
• I have failed to provide my developers incentives to reuse artifacts,
• It was not my responsibility to follow what was going on next door where there was a separate team dealing with BPM, I mean they are two different initiatives,
• I firmly believe that SOA is nothing more than fancy CORBA or COM.

Despite all of the things I have NOT done, SOA has failed. My additional failure to recognize and implement best practices that have been proven successful in many other companies worldwide also play into the failure of SOA.

Oh well, we should move on and try something new. On the bright side 70% of our initiatives fail anyway. The failure of SOA is SOA’s fault not mine.

Thanks for understanding and I’d like to declare in advance that Cloud Computing, Virtualization and SaaS will be failures under my direction as well.

Thanks for listening

XXXX

Project Manager, EA Artchitect, Lead Developer (Choose One)

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Email this to the largest DL you can find, and rejoice in the fact that you are not alone. Many others feel the same way.

-f

P.S. You failed, not SOA. Now go resign.

PS: Repasse esta carta para um amigo arquiteto!

PS2: L. Frank Kenney (http://blogs.gartner.com/frank_kenney/) is a Research Director for Applications Strategy and Governance in Gartner Research, where he is responsible for research in the governance of SOA infrastructure initiatives, Web services, business-to-business integration software, strategies, methodologies and technologies including SOA, EDI, FTP and XML.