New online SOA strategy planning tool - we need beta testers!
Over the past six months we've been busy working behind the scenes with a partner,
JEMM Research, on a pretty nifty online SOA strategy planning tool. We're getting near to the point of launch, and we'd really like to find some people out there who would be interested in participating in a two-week beta test phase. Are you interested?
The heart of the tool is a self-assessment model that looks at six dimensions of competence/readiness: concepts, strategy, architecture, organisation & people, governance, and technology infrastructure. You can see a small screen-shot of the (pre-beta) tool below.
Now we know there are a number of vendor-specific SOA assessment/readiness tools out there, but this one is a little different, for a couple of reasons:
- It's vendor-neutral - it's not designed to steer you towards buying a vendor's product. It's not sponsored in any way.
- It's more detailed - the assessment at the heart of the tool has around 150 questions, and is designed to really make you think about how well you're implementing (or able to implement) a SOA initiative that has real business value.
- It provides some pretty cool feedback. The self-assessment, which is free of charge to use, provides you with overall scores in the six dimensions. You can go back to the tool as often as you like, and rerun the calculations to see how you've improved.
- If you want, you can pay a modest fee to gain "premium access" to the tool. With premium access the tool will generate, based on your self-assessment answers, a detailed and personalised SOA strategy action plan report. The report benchmarks your organisation against others of the same size, in the same geography and in the same industry as you. And most importantly, the report also contains a detailed set of actions you can take to improve your critical SOA related competencies. With premium access you can run the report as often as you like, whenever you like - so you can track your progress as you make your SOA journey.
If you're interested in being a beta tester, please
drop us a line. We're currently planning on running the beta from May 14th to May 25th.
Labels: MWD, SOA, strategy planning
