Well, I have officially had my 15 minutes of fame.  Back in June, I was invited to participate in a SOA Power Panel for SYS-CON in New York.  I’ve participated in a number of expert panels over the years, but this one was unique.  The discussion took place in the Reuter’s TV studio in Times Square.  The room had a professional camera crew, a sound stage, CNN-style set, and the windows behind the panel overlook Times Square (you can actually see some of the digital billboards in the background).  It was a fantastic experience and we had a really great discussion around the current state of Service Orientation and the future holds for enterprises both large and small with respect to technology innovation and successful SOA adoption.

You can find the videocast here: SOA Power Panel - Live from Times Square. There is a brief commercial and then it takes you right into the panel discussion.

I had a ton of fun participating in it and hopefully you’ll find value in viewing it.

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, working with various clients, writing courseware, writing articles, and basically doing everything EXCEPT for blogging.

Here’s some of what I’ve been up to:

• Article: SOA Governance: Start Small and Build Incrementally (published March 6th by SYS-CON)
  
• Presentation: SOA Adoption Planning (1-hour seminar I delivered in February)
• Presentation: Delivered a virtual presentation for the Dallas SOA Users Group. I had a client engagement in Calgary, so we tried out a virtual delivery and it was quite successful.
  
• Book: Service Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide for Executives (August 2008, Wiley Press)
• Courses: Updates to various courses plus new courses coming soon for Project Managers, Mainframe and Legacy Personnel, and some Best Practices content. For more information, check out Web Age’s SOA curriculum.
• Web-based SOA Training: I’ve been working on a new offering at Web Age in which some of our content is made available as recorded, flash-based audio/visual presentations that can be hosted internally within an organization’s intranet. More details to follow.

I’m going to try and be more diligent about blogging in April. I especially hope to share insights and perspectives that I glean from the IBM SOA IMPACT conference in Vegas. I’ll be attending that conference in early April and conducting a Birds of a Feather session on governance.

Jason Bloomberg and I delivered a webinar yesterday — SOA Governance: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

My portion of the webinar identified 10 Steps to Successful SOA Governance:

1. Avoid extremes
2. Involve business stakeholders
3. Develop SOA champions
4. Promote service ownership
5. Govern by policy
6. Shepherd the service portfolio
7. Promote a common vocabulary
8. Invest in proper governance tooling
9. Encourage collaborative governance planning
10. Start small and grow incrementally