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SOA requires discipline to implement, and can involve new roles. In that regard it seems a bit like Scrum. It’s easy to do something that looks like Scrum, but it is quite difficult to maintain the discipline to do Scrum as it was intended.

Another parallel is shiny tools. There are a lot of tools that help with agile software development, but they can often be a distraction. SOA appears to suffer from the same issue.

Just thinkin’.

My new role has a strong enterprise architecture flavour, but is limited to one business unit. Last week I attended the ZapThink LZA Bootcamp held in Melbourne. I paid my own way, and it was worth the trip.

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