Comments on: Common SOA/Integration project pitfalls and how to avoid them http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/09/01/soa-integration-project-challenges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soa-integration-project-challenges Summa Blog Thu, 17 May 2012 15:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tyler http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/09/01/soa-integration-project-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-1431 Tyler Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:31:09 +0000 http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1431 Great article. My company really doesn't put too much emphasis on titles (I've made up most of mine and they've stuck: funny thing is we cater to fortune 500) but I thought Integration Czar has a nice a ring to it and I did a quick search on teh googles to see if other companies have adopted the term. This was the first link and what you describe is exactly the thing I've been doing for years. Great fodder to take back to the execs and show them that I'm not the one that's crazy. It's them! They are all crazy... On a side note though, CEA seems a little over zealous. I have been in Enterprise systems for at least a minute and Enterprise to me means super nova when a matchstick would have sufficed. So although Integrations are agreeably an integral part of enterprise systems, Chief Architect of Super Nova seems like overkill. Integration Czar sounds way more rock and roll and way more down to earth. Great article. My company really doesn’t put too much emphasis on titles (I’ve made up most of mine and they’ve stuck: funny thing is we cater to fortune 500) but I thought Integration Czar has a nice a ring to it and I did a quick search on teh googles to see if other companies have adopted the term. This was the first link and what you describe is exactly the thing I’ve been doing for years. Great fodder to take back to the execs and show them that I’m not the one that’s crazy. It’s them! They are all crazy…

On a side note though, CEA seems a little over zealous. I have been in Enterprise systems for at least a minute and Enterprise to me means super nova when a matchstick would have sufficed. So although Integrations are agreeably an integral part of enterprise systems, Chief Architect of Super Nova seems like overkill. Integration Czar sounds way more rock and roll and way more down to earth.

]]> By: Joseph Lui http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/09/01/soa-integration-project-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 Joseph Lui Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:57 +0000 http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1423 Good stuff, Jorge! Thanks for your lessons learned. I would add that for inter-departmental/company projects you should work with or establish your own SOA CoE (Center of Excellence). Especially for truly silo'd teams, one seemingly mundane yet valuable responsibility of the center is to establish and publish a registry of interfaces. It is amazing how much momentum can build on its own when motivated teams are allowed to find and study existing mechanisms of interaction with other systems. After all, one of the driving motivations for SOA is reusability, and if an interface is interesting to one group it should and probably will be interesting to another. Good stuff, Jorge! Thanks for your lessons learned.

I would add that for inter-departmental/company projects you should work with or establish your own SOA CoE (Center of Excellence). Especially for truly silo’d teams, one seemingly mundane yet valuable responsibility of the center is to establish and publish a registry of interfaces. It is amazing how much momentum can build on its own when motivated teams are allowed to find and study existing mechanisms of interaction with other systems. After all, one of the driving motivations for SOA is reusability, and if an interface is interesting to one group it should and probably will be interesting to another.

]]> By: George Taylor (VA Strat) http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/09/01/soa-integration-project-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 George Taylor (VA Strat) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:26:08 +0000 http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/?p=1151#comment-1420 Great piece; very well written. As an HR Project Manager/Team Member who has worked his share of SOA projects, I can honestly say that you hit the nail right on the head. Integration projects are very difficult and when the teams operate in silos, get into ownership of data issues, or have unbalanced talent and communication, the challenges can get rough. The integration czar is extremely important to syncing competing initiatives and goals and getting the team to see the project in a holistic sense. Again, great piece. I am going to share and reference frequently. George (Va Strat) twitter/vastrat www.vastrat.com Great piece; very well written.

As an HR Project Manager/Team Member who has worked his share of SOA projects, I can honestly say that you hit the nail right on the head.

Integration projects are very difficult and when the teams operate in silos, get into ownership of data issues, or have unbalanced talent and communication, the challenges can get rough. The integration czar is extremely important to syncing competing initiatives and goals and getting the team to see the project in a holistic sense.

Again, great piece. I am going to share and reference frequently.
George (Va Strat)
twitter/vastrat
http://www.vastrat.com

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