SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin on SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development

The SOA Consortium™ today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Melvin Greer, Chief SOA Architect, Senior Research Engineer, Director of SOA Competency Center at Lockheed Martin on “SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development,” recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-mg.

Mel began his presentation by defining hard problems and spirals. Hard problems have three characteristics. First, a hard problem doesn’t go away over time. Second, left unresolved, a hard problem will have a significant negative impact on your SOA adoption. Third and most important, resolving a hard problem requires multiple disciplines that come from inside and outside your own organization. A spiral is a technique that breaks a hard problem into a series of small activities, each lasting 30-90 days. Each activity, or spiral, produces an answer that moves the hard problem towards resolution.

Lockheed Martin has identified SOA hard problems across six categories. During his talk, Mel shared examples of hard problems within each category, as well as the inter-relationships between hard problems. In closing, Mel spoke of impending challenges as third-party services, SaaS, Applications as a Service (APAS), cloud computing etc. become the new business models.

To hear all of the insights Melvin Greer presented, download the 50-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-mg.

About the Speaker

Melvin Greer is SOA Chief Architect, Director SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office. He is a Certified Enterprise Architect, and a Fellow of the Federal Enterprise Architects Institute. Greer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author. “The Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture Revolution” is his most recently published book.

Greer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Technology and his Master of Science in Information Systems from American University, Washington, D.C. He has also completed the Executive Leadership Program at Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School.

Next Meeting; Information

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Orlando, FL, USA, on September 24-25, 2008. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info {at} soa-consortium(.)org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium’s SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org.

About the SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

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Contacts

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