Learnings From My "Dead Simple SOA" Workshop on Saturday
As announced earlier, the workshop that we (my business partner Rahul Singh and I) organised on "Dead Simple SOA" took place yesterday (Saturday the 8th Dec), and here's what we learnt from it. Fundamentally, the ideas we are trying to popularise are seen as useful and worth pursuing. That was a very welcome piece of validation. However, we do need to refine our message and target our audience better. We got largely positive feedback from the two participants (the low registration rate is itself a symptom of poor messaging and targeting), but also some valuable feedback on how we could improve it. 1. There are two sets of messages in the workshop, and this dilutes its appeal. This is because the draft white paper on which the workshop is based (" Slicing the Gordian Knot of SOA Governance ") itself deals with two separate (though related) themes. One theme is "How to do SOA". This had a number of new and useful ideas that the participants commented fav