Need SOA credentials? One of the biggest challenges facing the SOA marketplace is the lack of skilled architecture resources that are proficient on SOA methodologies, techniques, and approaches in ways that are not specific to the particular technology du-jour or an individual vendor implementation.

Get your chance at the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) Boot Camp. The credentialing process itself consists of a three-day workshop structured as a means to exchange the latest SOA practices, methodologies, and artifacts, and finishes on the last day with an in-person evaluation of your capabilities for credentialing. You leave the LZA bootcamp with a credential for your efforts, and with our knowledge of your expertise.

Agenda

Day One :

(Classes usually start at 9:30 and end at 6PM)

Module 1: Fundamentals of SOA

• Business Agility
• Service Orientation
• The Service Abstraction & SOA Tenets
• Metadata & SOA
• Different Views of SOA
• Service Composition: An overview
• SOA Fundamentals Wrap-Up
• Exercise: Service Contract Definition

Module 2: Service-Oriented Analysis & Design

• Architectural Artifacts
• Architectural Artifacts
• Initial Assessments
• Building Support for SOA
• Defining SOA Success
• Challenges in Calculating ROI
• The Business Case
• Milestone / KPI Plan
• The SOA Roadmap
• The ZapThink SOA Roadmap
• Exercise: SOA Roadmap/KPI Plan

Day Two :

(Classes usually start at 9:30 and end at 6PM)

Module 2: Service-Oriented Analysis & Design (Continued)

• Service-Oriented Process
• SOA Governance Intro
• Measuring SOA Progress
• Exercise: Up-Front ROI Analysis

Module 3: Building the SOA Infrastructure

• Service Intermediation
• SOA & Legacy
• Data Services
• Messaging & Events
• The Role of XML
• SOA Security
• The Governance, Quality, Management Trifecta
• Evaluating SOA Infrastructure
• SOA & Semantics Revisited
• Homework: SOA Infrastructure Plan

Day Three :

(Classes usually start at 9:30 and end at 6PM)

Module 4: Planning & Running SOA Implementation Projects

• Iterative approaches to SOA
• Developing a Governance Framework
• Exercise: Building a Governance Framework
• Exercise: Creating a SOA Project Plan
• Exercise: SOA Implementation Test Plan

Module 5: Overcoming SOA Challenges

• Budgetary Challenges
• SOA Best Practice Challenges
• Organizational Challenges
• Architectural Challenges
• The Real Challenge: People, Change and Fear

Day Four

(Classes usually start at 9:30 and end at 6PM)

Module 6: Applying SOA

• The Service Lifecycle
• Visibility & Heterogeneity
• Complex Event Processing & SOA
• Service Reuse
• More on Service-Oriented Process and Enterprise Applications
• Transactions w/ SOA
• Service Consumers, Mashups, and SOBAs
• Achieving SOA Nirvana: Flat Cost of Change
• Exercise: Planning SOBAs
• Final exam: SOA Jeopardy!

Venue

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