Transition to SOA Quick Starts
SOA Literacy & Core Skills Tailored for your Functional Groups!

Challenge: Your organization has begun to implement Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and now each involved functional group - Developers, Designers, Architects and Leaders - must upgrade their knowledge and skills quickly and efficiently.

Solution: A Transition to SOA Quick Start tailored to fit the roles of each functional group:

• Application and Service Design Path…for analysts and application design professionals who define business requirements and plan business solutions comprised of composite applications and Web Services

  • Understanding & Applying SOA (1 day, Non-technical version)

  • Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD) (2 days)

• Application and Service Development Path…for application developers, architects, project managers and other IT professionals who construct sophisticated and complex business applications and services for deployment on a SOA

  • Understanding & Applying SOA (1 day, Technical version)

  • SOA Application & Service Development (2 days)

• Architecture Design Path…for architects and other technical professionals who design, plan and implement SOAs

  • Understanding & Applying SOA (1 day, Technical version)

  • SOA Technical Architecture Strategies & Tactics (2 days)

• Leadership Path…for Business and IT executives and managers who champion, sponsor, fund and support SOA initiatives

  • SOA Executive Summary (1/2 day)

  • Roadmap to SOA Success: A Manager’s Guide (2 days, plus optional Planning Session)

(Visit Transitions to SOA Quick Starts to view a graphic curriculum map, with links to complete course descriptions and detailed outlines.)

Each Transition to SOA Quick Start provides a concise, tightly-scoped and laser-focused learning solution. Tailored for the special needs of each SOA functional group, each concentrates on answering the key SOA questions from the perspective of each group:

• What is SOA?

• How does SOA work?

• When and how should you use SOA?

• What’s new about SOA?

• What’s different about SOA?

• What special Technology, Methodology and Sociology decisions, issues, challenges and roadblocks does SOA impose?

Each Transition to SOA Quick Start begins from scratch, assuming no previous SOA knowledge or experience, and quickly builds the conceptual knowledge and foundation skills needed by the functional group.  Following an introductory seminar that builds SOA literacy, each functional group proceeds to a specialized two-day workshop that completes the group’s understanding of their role in a SOA environment and develops the core SOA skills needed by the group.

Each Transition to SOA Quick Start utilizes simulations and case studies, to engage learners and enhance learning.  They build on the learner’s existing knowledge and proficiencies, helping them to understand and internalize how SOA will affect their job tasks and role performance.

Contact the I/S RESOURCE GROUP for more information and to explore how a Transition to SOA Quick Start can help to jump-start your SOA initiatives.