TY - GEN
T1 - A method for selecting SOA pilot projects including a pilot metrics framework
AU - O'Brien, Liam
AU - Gibson, James
AU - Gray, Jon
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Many organizations are introducing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as part of their business transformation projects to take advantage of the proposed benefits associated with using SOA. However, in many cases organizations don't necessarily know on which projects introducing SOA would be of value and show real benefits to the organization. In this paper we outline a method and pilot metrics framework (PMF) to help organization's select from a set of candidate projects those which would be most suitable for piloting SOA. The PMF is used as part of a method based on identifying a set of benefit and risk criteria, investigating each of the candidate projects, mapping them to the criteria and then selecting the most suitable project(s). The paper outlines a case study where the PMF was applied in a large government organization to help them select pilot projects and develop an overall strategy for introducing SOA into their organization.
AB - Many organizations are introducing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as part of their business transformation projects to take advantage of the proposed benefits associated with using SOA. However, in many cases organizations don't necessarily know on which projects introducing SOA would be of value and show real benefits to the organization. In this paper we outline a method and pilot metrics framework (PMF) to help organization's select from a set of candidate projects those which would be most suitable for piloting SOA. The PMF is used as part of a method based on identifying a set of benefit and risk criteria, investigating each of the candidate projects, mapping them to the criteria and then selecting the most suitable project(s). The paper outlines a case study where the PMF was applied in a large government organization to help them select pilot projects and develop an overall strategy for introducing SOA into their organization.
KW - project selection criteria
KW - service-oriented architecture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959914766&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1985793.1985885
DO - 10.1145/1985793.1985885
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450304450
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 653
EP - 662
BT - ICSE 2011 - 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, Proceedings of the Conference
T2 - 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011
Y2 - 21 May 2011 through 28 May 2011
ER -