Four Steps to SOA

This is from a recent Computerworld article -- guidelines to help
with the migration to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
1/ Define SOA
Be sure everyone agrees what it means. Lot of management folk think
it is web-services, and some think it is XML. The key is both IT
leaders and business leaders need to be clear on what it means and
why it matters.
2/ Train Staff
First educate the senior managers. In most cases SOA is grassroots
and driven by a few IT technology evangelist. Also a lot of
traditional IT folk will consider it a departure from what they are
used to. Training and education will help to flatter the curve.
3/ Establish and Enterprise Governing Committee
The goal is to reduce silos and reuse code -- so if SOA is done in
isolation it will not add the value of doing SOA.
4/ Think Big, but start Small
Big-bang projects in IT rarely work - so find small high vale
projects - that have relatively small developement efforts and where
benefits can be realized rather quickly (like 6 months)