Lukas Svoboda: Strategy, Architecture, Governance & Technology

I've been confirmed for "Implementing a Successful SOA - Realising Service Orientation" - A two day SOA workshop I'll be giving in Auckland and Wellington during Oct/Nov in association with BrightStar training. BrightStar are the wonderful folks who ran the three conferences I chaired in the last few years (two SOA and one general Architecture). Rather than being a conference this is a two day workshop to really get your head into SOA with yours truly. It represents over 4 years of active experience as an Enterprise and Strategic architect implementing real world SOAs for several key New Zealand companies such as Farmers Trading company and NZ Immigration Service. It brings all my thinking on SOA into two days of theory, background and practical advise on how to get into SOA. If this interests you jump along to the Brightstar site and register. There is a good discount for early bird registrations.

The course outline is as follows:

COURSE OUTLINE

Day One

What is Service-Orientation?
• Industry trends over the last five years
• Fundamental service orientation principles and tenets
• The relation of service-orientation and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• The definition of SOA from multiple viewpoints
• SOA as an IT philosophy

Service-Orientation as a Practical Theory
• What are services?
• The theory and detailed breakdown of a SOA

SOA - What are the Standards?
• Implementing SOA with web services
• Web services - standards and current status
• Technology implementation of these standards

Model-Driven Development and its Relationship to SOA
• Exploring model-driven development
• Detailing model-driven architecture
• What is contract-first development?
• Pros & cons of contract-first development
• The application of model-driven development of SOA

How SOA Affects your Architecture and Development Team
• How developers and architects need to think differently
• Training, personal development and SOA skills training
• Gaining buy-in from your IT team

Day Two

Prescriptive Guidance - The Microsoft SOA
• The Microsoft Technology Stack
• Microsoft SOA philosophy
• Practical guidance

SOA Case Studies: Objectives, Obstacles & Solutions
• Review of several NZ SOA case studies
• Issues and challenges
• Lessons learned: What went right? What went wrong?
• Identifying patterns which will work for you

Service Oriented Architecture and the Open Source Community
• The Open Source Technology Stack
• The Java Technology Stack
• Practical guidance

Service Oriented Management (SOM)
• Revealing SOM
• How does SOM affect your current IT operation?
• Successfully aligning SOM to your business

Aligning Architecture, Management and Governance
• Understanding the holy grail of implementing  SOA
• What is SOG (Service-Oriented Governance)?
• Realising service-orientation - Architecture, Management and Governance