Joe McKendrick recently wrote about Using Downtime to Boost SOA. He refered to Kleber Bacili, CTO and founder of Sensedia, says "times like these may be the perfect times to get your SOA house in order.”" We certainly agree.
As Kleber said, the "recent 'SOA is Dead' debate has actually rejuvenated interest in service oriented architecture," He adds that if your budget has been tightened, this is a great time to clean up those foundering projects that never quite seem to get traction.
Kleber writes that this clean up can best be done implementing SOA governance initiatives with a well-planned and incremental approach. This allows you to streamline wasteful and unruly SOA projects, eliminating duplicated development through governance practices.
Indeed we can turn the tables on mere cost cutting and generate value here. There is plenty of opportunity to increase customer capture and retention, and deliver increased value by delivering the most critical business functionality faster (and with the quality to call it "delivered").
To do so, you need to validate that each release does indeed meet requirements, or you end up with a mark in the cost column instead. Virtualization of services can also eliminate costs while increasing agility, by eliminating the dependencies that can keep your development teams on the bench waiting for access to live services and incomplete systems from other parties.
Of course, if you do all of the above, your teams won't have any excuse for downtime anymore -- they'll be too busy delivering!
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