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Ian Robinson, ThoughtWorks
Ian Robinson (http://iansrobinson.com) is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in the design and
delivery of service-oriented and distributed systems.
He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with
Microsoft technologies,and has published articles on business-oriented
development methodologies and distributed systems design ? most
recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008).
He is currently co-authoring a book on Web-friendly enterprise
integration.
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Presentation: "Steering the Northwest Passage: Beginning an SOA Initiative"
Time:
Wednesday 10:45 - 11:45
Location:
St. James's Suite
Abstract: "SOA. There's lots of knowledge out there, but we've never done it.
Where do we start? What must we do?"
In this session we present a map of the territory to be explored over
the course of an SOA initiative. We'll discuss how, by populating this
map in an agile, iterative manner with business, architectural and
technology artefacts we quickly:
- establish context, business goals and consensus amongst stakeholders;
- create a long-term vision that joins up the business, architectural
and technology views of an SOA initiative;
- deliver working software early and often in support of that vision;
- repeatedly question, prove and refine an initiative's goals and the
artefacts that support those goals.
As part of this "thin-slice" approach we'll look at 4 key artefacts:
- Stories, which describe goals and desired outcomes;
- Capabilities, which encapsulate the resources and abilities an
organisation needs to satisfy those goals;
- Services, which host capabilities;
- Consumer-driven contracts, which assert the interactions between
services.
In addition, We'll drill down into a number of activities and
additional artefacts that we use to:
- describe and challenge an organisation's goals and the benefits
attached to those goals;
- describe the capabilities needed to meet those goals;
- identify the quality-of-service expectations the business has of
those capabilities;
- assign capabilities to services;
- describe and test the externally visible interactions between
services;
- identify, plan and develop slices of service functionality that
deliver business benefits.
But knowing what you want to achieve, and what you need produce to
meet your goals, is only one step towards success. Very few
organisations start with a clean slate: if you're faced with a slew of
in-flight, stovepipe projects – each with their own discreet goals and
technology quirks; competing buy versus build pressures; a PMO and
budgetary structure built around project silos; and operational staff
at least one remove – process-wise and even geographically – from your
development teams, then you'll need to know how to get an initiative
up and running, and keep it on track. We'll round out the session with
a practical engagement model that adds the 'how' to the 'what' and the
'why'.
Presentation: "REST for SOA: Using the Web for Integration"
Time:
Friday 15:30 - 16:30
Location:
Fleet Room
Abstract: Stefan Tilkov interviewing Jim Webber and Ian Robinson
Presentation: "Game show: It's a Bullseye! with Jim Webber"
Time:
Friday 16:45 - 17:45
Location:
Fleming Room
Abstract: In this spoof of the classic UK game show "Bullseye!", Jim "Bowen"
Webber will host an hour-long game show in which the four panelists will answer randomly-chosen questions that are submitted by you throughout the conference. Attendees will be chosen from the crowd to throw darts at Bully's prize board, and if the question that you submitted is asked of the panel, then you win a prize!
Join us for an hour of fun and learning, and remember: You can't beat a bit o' Bully!
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