Top 10 SOA Pitfalls

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: Wrap-up
With SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) being the current IT systems acronym du jour, it's nice to see that some sane minds are mapping out the pitfalls. After all, many of these implementations stretch into the millions of dollars and deploy over several years. The last project I was part of as a government contractor was an excellent case in point. Most of these top ten pitfalls were present on the project which cost the taxpayers millions and quite frankly didn't do what the customer needed. Ironically we saw many of these pitfalls in advance and ended up having our hands tied by both our upper management and the customer's existing procedures. Maybe there needs to be a number zero, "Lack of Communication," that covers educating the stakeholders on the design and implementation model required for a successful SOA rollout. Hopefully this list can be used as a resource toward that end.