Key Learnings: SOA Key Success Factors (BEA-IT 2002-2006)

Based on my conversation with my peers in the industry, there is still a lot of keen desire by IT Leadership teams to understand the key success factors for adopting SOA. Following are the list of key success factors we (IT leadership team) had identified while I was the CTO-IT at BEA Systems.

1. Build the right team
2. Organize for success
3. Build coalition with business partners
4. Maintain Flexibility

The slides of these are available here. I have created a link of all my key learning blogs at my structured blog.

Key Learnings: Overcoming IT obstacle

I used to get offended whenever anyone stated that IT was an obstacle for Business, most probably because of I have been part of IT twice in my career. After giving this some thought following are some of the approaches IT could take to overcome this perception.

Read more about this here.

Key Learnings: IT Driven Runaway Projects

A scenario where Business has approved a large IT project with the timeline keep moving out with no end in sight.

Read more about how to identify and fix such projects here.

Key Learning: Business Drivern Runaway Projects

An example on how to manage a scenario where cash rich LOB continues to invest and drive projects with no foreseable return on investment.

Read more about it here.