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February 7, 2006 Agile Processes Enable SOA Success The Story Behind The Correlation In Agile And SOA Adoption by Carey Schwaber, Randy Heffner with Mike Gilpin	Average: 8  (1 rating)

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Executive Summary

Agile software development processes and service-oriented architecture (SOA) accomplish two different yet related goals: Agile processes increase the effectiveness of a team's software delivery, while SOA increases the flexibility and reusability of the software itself. Forrester's data shows a close correlation between adoption rates for Agile and SOA: Organizations with an enterprise-level commitment to SOA are twice as likely to use Agile processes. Firms are attracted to Agile and SOA for similar reasons, but there's more to this pairing than common values. Enterprises experience more success with SOA when they eschew big top-down delivery projects and instead get down in the trenches with an evolutionary approach. Agile processes provide a basic structure for this kind of incremental delivery. Development organizations should recognize and exploit the synergy between the two.

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