On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One challenge I've seen around the "reuse" question is that IT folks > think about reuse and business folks thing about "use". People don't > "reuse" finance or procurement, they "use" it. Now how do you get > people to agree to a central procurement shared service (business > concept) rather than departmental procurement operations? The answer > is that you have a business change programme to drive that behaviour > home. > > How many SOA programmes have a business change programme as an > integral part? Is their a correlation between the lack of business > change and the lack of reuse, or use? I'd bet heavily on yes. > > My personal view is that re-use isn't the goal, its "use" but > unfortunately in IT we can do the down loading of a library that the > first requires but rarely can we do the business change required for > the later.
Given your enthusiasm for the OASIS SOA RM<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/msearch?AT=steve+jones&AM=contains&MT="oasis+soa+rm"&MM=contains&pos=10&cnt=10>, I'm surprised that your personal view appears to be at odds with the RM's view that reuse IS the goal. But that's the great thing about SOA, anyone's personal views of it are just as valid as anyone else's or as any group's. <grin> -- Nick
