Re: [soa-rm] SOA metrics

[Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>]

to 1., exactly!  I would think of metrics in terms of providing expected business value or SOA-associated benefits.  I wouldn’t like metrics of simply “how well did you do what I told you” because that encourages people to game the system to look good.  One of the reasons the RAF talked to Architectural Implications was that conformance was whether you adequately considered and adequately was solely what you saw you needed.

Ahha!  I never thought of looking at the Arch Imps as metrics.  Might be useful.

Any other thoughts?

Ken

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On Apr 28, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Martin F Smith, BFC Consulting <bfc.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

1. "what would one measure to assess success."     Success at  . . .?  Performance of an SOA-style system (speed, flexibility, up-time, unit cost, error . . .) or perhaps degree to which a system implements the SOA model (sounds like a CMM type of thing...)

2. "Madrid where cloud and SOA had nothing to do with each other"          Really? Love to hear that discussion. Have to admit my initial reaction to Cloud was "new bottle, same wine." But there does seem to be novelty in the emphasis on delivering the quality of elasticity (a combo of technical capability and business packaging.)

Martin

On 4/28/2015 5:59 PM, Ken Laskey wrote:

what would one measure to assess success.