Accelerating SOA Adoption

AgilePath Corporation™, the industry-leading, vendor-neutral service-oriented architecture (SOA) management and technology consulting firm, offers tailored, interactive workshops to accelerate SOA adoption for Federal and Commercial clients. The workshops produce physical artifacts that map directly into the patent-pending, vendor-neutral AgilePath SOA Playbook™ and provide a direct, accelerated path to the implementation of a comprehensive organizational SOA transformation plan. The workshops are tailored, 1-2 day SOA immersions for 10-15 stakeholders that accommodate the fast-pace of our customers' business environments.

SOA Strategy and Planning Workshop
Target Mixed Stakeholder Participation: C-Level Executives, Sr. Management (Division Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Technical Directors), Enterprise Architects, Acquisition Managers

The SOA Strategy and Planning Workshop accelerates the identification of SOA business drivers with an executive-level focus on the development of an organizational SOA transformation plan. The SOA Strategy and Planning Workshop brings together organizational SOA adoption stakeholders and allows organizations to:

• Understand the process for organizational business discovery, including the definition of organizational business and IT imperatives and drivers
• Understand the requirements for establishing an organizational SOA Strategy, including business/IT alignment, governance, implementation and management considerations
• Understand best practices for socializing and gaining acceptance for the organizational SOA Strategy
• Understand SOA technical implementation in the context of the an overall SOA Strategy

SOA Governance Workshop
Target Mixed Stakeholder Participation: C-Level Executives, Sr. Management (Division Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Technical Directors), Sr. Architects (Enterprise, Security), Acquisition Managers, Compliance Officers

The SOA Governance Workshop accelerates the definition and alignment of an organizations' layered governance model to support both the business model and technical implementation. The SOA Governance Workshop brings together organizational SOA adoption stakeholders and allows organizations to:

• Assess their SOA Adoption Readiness through analysis of the funding and budgeting model, organizational structure, IT acquisition processes and enterprise architecture scope
• Understand best practices for implementing an SOA Governance model that defines governance processes, policies, roles, responsibilities, enforcement and metrics across Enterprise & Strategic, SOA Operating Model, Technical Services Lifecycle and Enablement Technology governance layers
• Understand best practices for socializing and gaining acceptance for a scoped-enterprise governance model
• Understand how to implement a closed-loop governance model that enables a SOA business/technology continuum and incremental SOA optimization

SOA Acquisition Workshop
Target Mixed Stakeholder Participation: C-Level Executives, Sr. Management (Division Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Technical Directors), Acquisition Managers and Professionals

The SOA Acquisition Workshop accelerates the validation of the SOA Business Model by focusing on SOA Acquisition in two dimensions – acquisition of incremental services, vice systems, within the context of organizational acquisition process and strategies for the acquisition of enablement technology. The SOA Acquisition Workshop brings together organizational SOA adoption stakeholders and allows organizations to:

• Understand how system-centric acquisition process are adapted to support SOA infrastructure and incremental service acquisition and delivery (including organization-specific processes, DoD 5000 guidance, JCIDS)
• Understand organizational acquisition traps that can render SOA unaffordable within an organization and how to properly partner with SOA vendors to drive mutual value
• Understand the role of acquisition versus operations and sustainment in the delivery of incremental services
• Understand how to "close the acquisition gaps" between Program and Project Manager requirements and acquisition personnel decisions
• Understand how to align acquisition with the organizational governance model
• Understand the relationship of the acquisition lifecycle to multiple technology lifecycles – system, service producers, service consumers

SOA Quad Model™ Workshop
Target Mixed Stakeholder Participation: Sr. Management (Division Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Technical Directors), Sr. Architects (Enterprise, Data, Process), Business Analysts, Sr. Application Developers, User Interface Designers and Developers

The SOA Quad Model Workshop™ accelerates organizational technical readiness through the identification of an end-to-end functional capability or operational thread. The SOA Quad Model™ Workshop brings together organizational SOA adoption stakeholders and allows organizations to:

• Understand how to balance business drivers and technical implementation patterns through SOA Quad Model™ analysis
• Understand how to identify organizational and technical implementation SOA entry points and "getting started" strategies
• Understand the integration of the SOA Quad Model™ Technical Foundation with the SOA Reference Architecture
• Understand the technical readiness of an organizations' existing IT infrastructure to support SOA adoption
• Understand the organizational obstacles and biases that impede SOA Adoption

SOA Enablement Technology Workshop
Target Mixed Stakeholder Participation: Program Managers, Project Managers, Technical Directors, Sr. Architects, Application Developers, Business Analysts

The SOA Enablement Technology Workshop accelerates the technical readiness of an organization by identifying categories of SOA IT products, mapped against vendor-neutral core capabilities. The SOA Enablement Technology Workshop brings together organizational SOA adoption stakeholders and provides the foundation for an organization to:

• Identify and understand the gaps between existing IT investments and target SOA Technology
• Establish enablement technology priorities and alignment with business drivers and the technical implementation strategy through the SOA Quad Model™.
• Understand the most commonly identified core enablement technologies within the context of a SOA Reference
  • Architecture
  • Application and Service Hosting
  • Build-Time, Design-Time, Provision-Time and Run-Time Management
  • Business Process Management and Service Orchestration
  • Distributed Testing
  • Information Assurance and Security
  • Legacy Systems
  • Messaging and Mediation
  • Network/Transport
  • Service, Application and Event Management
  • Storage and Data Management
  • Visualization

Additionally, SOA Enablement Technology Workshops can be tailored on a specific technology (ex: Enterprise Service Bus) or a particular grouping of technology (ex: Business Process Management, Enterprise Service Bus and Service Hosting to support Service Orchestration).

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