IT SOA Strategy: Form Architecture Group ...

What is the role of an IT architecture group with regards to SOA? Ajit Sagar shares his experiences with developing the architecture organization. He recommends a more formalized architecture function to support SOA standards and performance agreements. I like his ideas regarding a more active and involved architecture team that interacts regularly in projects, in addition to traditional roles, such as publishing reference architecture documents. Good advice ....

... "One of the main responsibilities is also to align with the business to define the IT strategy for SOA and to provide an implementation roadmap, including the migration of existing applications towards a service-oriented paradigm. " ...

IT SOA Strategy: Form Architecture Group: Via Sys-Con Italia: Architecting for SOA ...