Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility

Chapter 2. Streamlining the Enterprise Architecture for Dynamic BPM and SOA

Have a bias toward action—let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Indira Gandhi

Focusing the Enterprise Architecture on Variability

Enterprise architecture is often viewed as too conceptual and having too large a scope to be pragmatic and show rapid results. However, a controlled SOA and Business Process Management (BPM) approach, with the appropriate focus management, can enable a faster path to the alignment of business and IT. However, faster does not mean omitting essential elements. The approach can be exhaustive, performing modularizing processes with a controlled granularity, variability, ...