SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Jim Johnson, Founder & Chairman, Standish Group, on Creating an SOA Pipeline

During his presentation, Jim Johnson shares the results of a research study on the top 10 drivers that are influencing decisions on how IT implements SOA. These drivers are increased business agility, business process modeling, fear/fashion/peer pressure, staff coercion, investment reuse, readiness assurance, architecture flexibility/scaling, regulatory compliance, security promise and vendor hype.

For each of the 10 drivers, Jim describes the underlying survey analysis; pointing out related statistics and considerations around investment, risk, yield, project scoping, resourcing and success and failure rates. Citing The Standish Group's "10 Laws of Chaos," Jim provides insight on how to proactively recognize and prevent situations that typically cause projects to fail. Such as, "The Law of the Empty Chair," which states your best possible person will leave at the worst possible time.

Throughout the presentation, Jim shares how applying pipelining techniques - micro-project stacks, portfolio baselines and resource pools - can increase an organization's SOA project success rate.

To hear all of the insights Jim Johnson presented, download the 43-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-jj.

About the Speaker
Jim Johnson is the founder and chairman of The Standish Group. He has been professionally involved in the computer industry for over 30 years and has a long list of published papers, articles and speeches. He has a combination of technical, marketing, and research achievements focused on mission-critical applications and technology. He is best known for his research on transactional middleware, as well as project and system failures. Jim is a pioneer of modern research techniques and continues to advance in the research industry through virtual focus groups and case-based analytical technology.

Next Meeting Information
The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Orlando, FL, USA, on September 24-25, 2008. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium's SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org.

About the SOA Consortium
The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.