Consulting

Envisioning your transition to a service-oriented architecture: A facilitated technical discussion

In Doug Barry's most popular offering, your group will work through a practical hands-on discussion of how to use a service-oriented architecture in your organization. Your group will exchange ideas, concerns, and opportunities, giving you a deeper, shared vision of what a service-oriented architecture might mean for your organization.

	A brief technology overview
	Forces affecting the adoption of a service-oriented architecture using Web services
	Paths for adopting a service-oriented architecture
	Integration with existing internal and external systems
	Likely initial impact of a service-oriented architecture
	Discussion

Participants:  user, user management, non-technical management, technical management, and technical staff. This session is designed for groups of less than 40 people. The length varies depending on the discussion. For more information, contact Doug Barry at or +1-952-892-6113.

Transitioning to a service-oriented architecture: Uncovering your organization's issues

Adopting a service-oriented architecture might well be more of a people problem than a technical problem. Such an architecture has the potential to vastly change our organizations and will likely cause non-technical change issues to increase within organizations. In this session, Doug Barry will help your group explore resistance to change and how to lessen it – all within the context of adopting a service-oriented architecture. The usual outcome is a set of organization specific strategies for increasing the chance of success when introducing a service-oriented architecture. This session builds on the use of force field diagrams to analyze change issues; the diagrams were introduced in Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide. 

	Review of force field diagrams
	Discussion of change
	Change scenarios
	Analyze change issues in your organization using force-field diagrams
	Tips for managing change issues during development

Participants: user, user management, non-technical management, technical management, and technical staff. This session is designed for groups of less than 20 people. The length varies, but is often one-half day per group. For more information, contact Doug Barry at or +1-952-892-6113.

Service-oriented decomposition: Getting it right

One of the most commonly discussed concepts in software engineering is decomposition. Nevertheless, there are few formal techniques for decomposition. This session introduces a technique that can be used at both the business process and service levels of a service-oriented architecture. The technique will then be used to develop a decomposition for a project of your choosing in your organization. The technique used in this session is described at Design Decomposition for Business Processes and Data Flow Diagrams.

	Historical context for the practice of decomposition in software engineering
	Why improper decomposition could hurt you later than sooner: lurking maintenance issues
	How decomposition applies to service-oriented architecture
	Review of the decomposition technique
	Team development of an example service-oriented architecture (in some cases, the group will be divided in to smaller groups for this part of the session)
	Discussion and possible revision of team-developed decomposition (this might be repeated multiple times along with breaking into smaller groups again)

Prerequisite: A project in your organization that needs decomposition.

Participants: users, user management, non-technical management, technical management, and technical staff. This session is designed for groups of less than 40 people. The length varies. For more information, contact Doug Barry at or +1-952-892-6113.

Specializing in enterprise architecture with an emphasis in service-oriented architecture, database systems, and object technology, Doug Barry's practice is aimed at accelerating your understanding and use of software technology. An author, columnist, guest lecturer, international speaker, and mentor, his most recent book is Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager’s Guide. More... With Doug, you’re getting an unbiased point of view. Doug has no “preferred” products and is not affiliated with any of the product vendors.

You can contact Doug Barry at or +1-952-892-6113.

“The new field of integration via Web Services, is, unfortunately, a hype minefield. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a Web Services tool packaged with Ginzu knives! Doug Barry demystifies the new but burgeoning field with a refreshing business-oriented point of view. What drives adoption? What corporate forces will resist adoption? Most importantly, The Savvy Manager’s Guide explains how all of this great new stuff is going to leverage existing infrastructure in real corporate settings, and benefit from modern software development processes like Model Driven Architecture. A great read!”  Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D. Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group, Inc.

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