Preface

Are you worried about getting a business return on your service-oriented architecture (SOA) investment? Are you a business manager who has been disappointed by an information technology (IT) project, or an IT manager or architect who has been disappointed by the business's reaction to your project? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, I wrote this book for you.

If you've been part of one of these disappointing projects, most likely the reason for your disappointment was a disconnect between the business and IT communities—a disconnect that resulted in the project failing to deliver the business value that both sides expected. It is likely that this disconnect was not even recognized until late in the project. So late that ...

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