SOA Expertise & Mentoring

In many organisations, enterprise architects are the first to investigate and understand Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but are then faced with the challenge of bringing the rest of the organisation up to speed with SOA concepts and related technologies. This is quite an achievement when the SOA marketplace is constantly evolving.

When the goal for architects is to get their organisations heading in the same direction with SOA, many require support to educate and train both IT and business staff about their organisation's SOA strategy and detailed roadmap.

What we do

With our working knowledge and experience in SOA and other emerging technologies, we are increasingly invited to mentor individual enterprise architects and entire teams to help them develop new skills in SOA and related technologies. Our coaching involves:

• identifying key roles and growing your capabilities through ours
  
  
• knowledge transfer to your team
  
  
• ensuring success of your first SOA project and use this as a reference in moving forward
  
  
• tapping into our breadth of expertise using our skills matrix on demand.
  
  

Intelligent Pathways' mentoring ranges from single day consultancy through to fully embedded project teams who work within and outside of your organisation to guide and expedite your SOA journey.

As we face new SOA challenges on client projects, we constantly feed back our lessons learned, refine our tools and build upon our SOA Intelligence so that all other projects can benefit.

How you'll benefit

Intelligent Pathways has the collective experience to train and coach groups of enterprise architects in the use of SOA frameworks, methods, reference materials and techniques. We can also deliver presentations to senior management as well as architects to assist in raising awareness and facilitate the change management process.

The good news is that plenty of organisations (and people) have gone down the path of SOA before you, and they can share their real world experiences, including their successes and their lessons learned.

Intelligent Pathways can facilitate this knowledge transfer and mentoring. In fact, our clients have advised us that one of the greatest benefits derived by architects and designers is in post-SOA evaluations -a sentiment shared by our own consultants and clients.