Came across Loraine Lawson's post pertaining to my last podcast of my keynote presentation at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum. "Dave Linthicum is one of the best consultants to read when it comes to SOA. He spends a lot of time speaking on the conference circuit; his blog posts on InfoWorld always seem to be published while he's traveling to or from some city." Too much time if you ask me. Now that I'm a "hired Came across Loraine Lawson’s post pertaining to my last podcast of my keynote presentation at InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum. “Dave Linthicum is one of the best consultants to read when it comes to SOA. He spends a lot of time speaking on the conference circuit; his blog posts on InfoWorld always seem to be published while he’s traveling to or from some city.” Too much time if you ask me. Now that I’m a “hired gun” you have to balance the speaking opportunities with the working opportunities. I teach more when speaking, but learn more when doing. The trick is finding a balance. “He also spends a good chunk of time talking about the Bad Practices in SOA implementations. He identifies these as: Selecting SOA without understanding the business requirements or needs. As a consultant, the first thing he does when he works with a business is to rip things out of his stack that customers don’t need. Beware of vendors selling you more than you can use. Not linking back to accepted EA standards and best practices. Not creating a business case. You must understand the business impact and benefits or, he suggests, you shouldn’t try it. Using the wrong people, who lack funding and empowerment.” A lot of the meat came towards the end of the presentation, unfortunately. I may upload entire audio to this blog, still need to put up the presentation up there as well. Software Development