This course is a 2-day curriculum that focuses on how an organization moving to Service Orientation can identify effective business Services. Exercises in each section of the course demonstrate techniques to identify candidate services, then organize them to achieve real business goals. The properties of well-defined services are explored, and emphasis is placed on identifying the responsibility profile of each service ? a proven technique to eliminate duplication of functionality. Further exercises demonstrate how to define the interactions and operations of each service to assure it meets its prescribed business goals.
Audience:
Business or system analysts, technical managers, and software developers who wish to learn the techniques of service-oriented analysis.
Prerequisites
Experience in software project management, business or systems analysis, or requirements gathering is desirable, but not mandatory.
Course duration:
2 days
Course outline:
Overview of Service Orientation
If Service-Orientation is the Answer…?
SOA – Is This Really New?
Evolution – Not Revolution
SO and SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
What is Service-Oriented Architecture
Service-Orientation
Approaches to Service-Orientation
Service-Oriented Principles
Benefits of Service-Orientation
Challenges of Service-Orientation
Our Main Concepts for Service-Orientation
What Really is New with Service-Orientation?
Overview of SO-Analysis
Service-Oriented Analysis
Service-Oriented Analysis Activities – High-Level
Our Process Roadmap
Gather Business Drivers and Business Requirements
Introduction of Course Case Study
Case Study Requirements
Identify Users, Stakeholder, and Their Business Goals
Identify Users and Goals
Identify the Candidate Services
Challenges of Identifying Services
Techniques for Identifying Candidate Services
Identify Candidate Services – Business Process Analysis
Identify Candidate Services – Use Case Model
Identify Candidate Services – Feature Analysis
Identifying Candidate Services
Identify Service Granularity
Identify Service Granularity
Candidate Service Granularity
Service Refactoring
Service Refactoring
Service Refactorings to Manage Granularity
Service Refactoring – Intersection
Service Refactoring – Unification
Service Refactoring – Where Are We Now?
Challenge the Candidate Services
Challenge Our Candidate Services
The Challenge Questions
Identify Service Responsibilities
Service Responsibilities
Identify Service Operations and Interactions
Service Operation and Interactions
The Service Interaction Diagram
SID: Cancel a Reservation
Critique: Cancel a Reservation SID
SID: Establish a Reservation
Critique: Establish a Reservation SID
Updating Service Responsibilities
Service Responsibilities
Service Operations and Interactions
