08:30 – 08:45

Welcome, Dr. Richard Mark Soley, SOA Consortium Executive Director
 

The US Army (USA) is a huge and distributed enterprise with systems and system of systems on every imaginable platform. Driven by the need to develop and deploy solutions against a more flexible architecture that can be more responsive to change, easier to maintain, and less costly, the Army has decided to transition from approaches that promote stovepipe solutions to those based upon SOA. Therefore, one of the key tactics enabling this transition is the description of a business-centric SOA Lifecycle Management Methodology (LCMM) that focuses on business principles, architecture guidance, governance, funding and acquisition, and change management.

The goals of the Army LCMM change management are consistent with those of the SOA Consortium (SOA-C):

• Army LCMM: Sell SOA through Executive Communication -- Executive Suite SOA
• Army LCMM: Demonstrate implications of Adopting SOA -- Business Operations SOA
• Army LCMM: Change Management to ensure SOA Viability -- Ground Floor SOA

This session represents the kickoff of a standing feature of the quarterly SOA-C meetings, the "SOA Consortium Army Adoption Project", in which an interchange between USA LCMM stakeholder and authoring team representatives and SOA-C members occurs. This interchange is expected to result in mutual benefit to the delivery and execution-of the USA LCMM and the SOA-C:

• Challenging SOA Topics of mutual interest to the SOA-C CoP and USA will be proposed to the appropriate SOA Consortium working group for further exploration, by the SOA-C, USA and CSC;
• Insights from these sessions will be incorporated into the LCMM for usage by the USA;
• Success stories as a result of this effort will become a part of the body of knowledge for SOA-C members.

The Generating Business Value from SOA strategy is focused on providing methods, models, tools and connections for business process owners, business operations managers, business analysts, and business project managers who are considering, or actively applying, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA practices to resolve their business scenarios.
 

Working Group Quick Updates
 

Our objective with the SOA and BPM Roundtable is simple. We want to generate a meaningful conversation between Thought Leaders and meeting attendees on the hot topic of the SOA-BPM relationship. The SOA Consortium’s position is that SOA and BPM are complements.

The roundtable conversation will discuss the key points, issues and opportunities across four aspects of the SOA-BPM relationship: business discipline, methodology, technology and human element.

SOA and BPM Thought Leaders:

Facilitator: Brenda Michelson, SOA Consortium Program Director

*Please note, this session will be recorded and shared publicly as a SOA Consortium Podcast