The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of "Creating an SOA Pipeline", a podcast and slide deck by Jim Johnson, founder and chairman, Standish Group. The podcast was recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, ON, Canada, in June 2008. Johnson describes how applying pipelining techniques -- such as micro-project stacks, portfolio baselines and resource pools -- can increase an organization's SOA project success rate. Free download.

Johnson shares the results of a research study on the top 10 drivers that are influencing decisions on how IT implements SOA. These drivers are increased business agility, business process modeling, fear/fashion/peer pressure, staff coercion, investment reuse, readiness assurance, architecture flexibility/scaling, regulatory compliance, security promise and vendor hype.

For each of the 10 drivers, he describes the underlying survey analysis; pointing out related statistics and considerations around investment, risk, yield, project scoping, resourcing and success and failure rates. Citing The Standish Group’s “10 Laws of Chaos,” Johnson provides insight on how to proactively recognize and prevent situations that typically cause projects to fail. Such as, “The Law of the Empty Chair,” which states your best possible person will leave at the worst possible time.

Download the 43-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at the SOA Consortium web site at the link below. As of this posting, the podcast and presentation are available as a free download. Registration required.

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