BPM is defined as a strategy for managing and improving the performance of a business through continuous optimization of business processes in a closed-loop cycle of modeling, execution, and measurement.
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All articles filed in Stephen G. Bennett
I have been lucky enough to live and travel all of the world with my work.
I am an experienced senior IT leader with over 25 years of diverse, professional experience in high profile environments spanning leadership, architecture, solution delivery, software engineering, and project management roles.
Identify and Discover Services – Part 3
Service Boundary Analysis is a key activity in Service Identification which helps with determining if one or more Service boundaries are necessary.
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Identify and Discover Services – Part 2
I want to continue the process of how to identify services candidates and potential opportunities for service reuse.
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Identify and Discover Services – Part 1
One of the most important aspects of having an approach to identify services is to make sure it is repeatable, consistent, and effective.
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Determining the ROI of SOA Through Reuse
IT organizations have at their disposal software assets that, if systematically reused in the transformation to a SOA, can lead to substantial savings each year by increasing development productivity and decreasing software maintenance costs.
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The Hope, Carrot and Stick of SOA Change Management
Culture change is not something that can be achieved by flicking a switch on/off and hoping that the way “people act, interact, and collaborate” changes overnight.
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Service Engineering Structures
I want to cover some work I have done around organizational structures for development teams who are developing services.
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SOA Empowered Organizational Structures
Successful SOA initiatives require active leadership and none more so than acquiring some level of executive sponsorship which empowers newly formed or updated structures with not only the mandate but also the appropriate authority
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SOA Governance is as Important as it is Mundane
it is not possible to have a single model of good SOA Governance, but having a SOA Governance Reference Model assists enterprises in expediting the construction of their own SOA Governance model
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The Need for SOA Governance
Currently in London and revisiting some of my favorite sights. When I start approaching the Houses of Parliament I start to ponder the need for governance in our day to day life but also in my professional life. I see time and time again companies getting frustrated with SOA. These companies initially built a pilot project…
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An Enterprise Architect's Musings 