Chapter 6. Organizing for SOA Success

The design of enterprise-scale business processes and supporting systems touches on many organizations and projects within the enterprise. The business processes themselves coordinate the work of a number of business groups, and the underlying systems coordinate the work of the applications belonging to those business groups. Each business group typically has an IT group dedicated to the care and feeding of its applications. All of these organizations must be involved in one way or another in the development of the business processes and systems.

The grouping of a business unit and its supporting IT organization is often referred to as a silo—a term I will use quite a bit in this chapter and beyond. Each ...

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