{"id":188,"date":"2007-05-21T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2007-05-21T21:43:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T02:43:29","slug":"has-anything-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Has anything changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe McKendrick posted a followup<\/a> with some of the discussions that have went on within the comments of his blog regarding his commentary on the recent ZapFlash about barriers to SOA adoption. While most of the comments amount to vendor bashing, the one that stuck out to me was the one that said, “SOA offers nothing different than what the vast majority of good IT teams have been doing for more than a decade. Think strategically? We do. We recognize SOA for what it is: nothing.”<\/p>\n

My first comment is that SOA is indeed, evolutionary, not revolutionary. That being said, I simply don’t believe that most IT departments can truly believe that they’re doing a great job. Are there some that are? Absolutely. Are those great ones thinking strategically? Probably so. But what about the rest of the pack? To them, I ask one simple question: What has changed? If you’re viewing this strictly as a technology thing where you throw some REST or Web Services into the same-old solutions that you’ve been building, you’re not getting it. If the business is unhappy with IT, something needs to change. Perhaps its a change in how things get built and how we view lifecycles (such as product lifecycles instead of development lifecycles). Maybe that manifests itself in organizational changes. Perhaps it is more operationally focused with visibility and reporting on subsystems that are of significance to the business rather than another IT worker. These are just some examples. If you’re still defining projects in the same old way, deploying them in the same old way, etc., well then, not much has changed, has it. I hope that 10 years from now some things have changed, but IT moves very slowly. 10 years ago, I was hoping usability and user-centered design philosophies would continue to gain prominence, and those are still in their emerging stages in many corporate enterprises. At least I know I’ll have a long career in advocacy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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