[Via Xebia Blog] Xebia a consulting firm similar to Thougtworks in enterprise and agile development space has published a list Top 10 SOA pitfalls.

SOA is on every CTO's radar for various reasons, but primarily this architectural approach is for consolidating IT platforms, applications and data of an enterprise and increasing ROI and visibility. Let us look at these well summarized points.

The complete Top 10 SOA pitfalls list is:

Implementation pitfalls

Architectural/design pitfalls

Organizational pitfalls:


I will add few more points -
11. Don't get carried away by the Hype
12. Governance is vital, but shouldn't a bottleneck.

Having said that these issues can be tackled in a methodical approach. The first step to see if the organization is ready is to do a pilot which will help and alleviate these concerns.
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