Wanted: SOA staff

SOA is the hottest trend in IT these days, but finding qualified IT staff who understand the concept and have the skills can be a real problem. While outsourcing has merit, it might not be good for the company in the long term, and hiring external consultants is expensive. The other option is retraining existing staff, and it often makes a lot of sense. In fact, companies today are spending an average of $310,000 on SOA skills development and training. Training involves learning new technical skills as well as developing business acumen that will help them serve their users. To make it work, deploy new roles and redefine existing ones. New roles include IT executive, enterprise architect, service architect, service engineer, and developer/administrator. Also, establish core standards, accelerate re-skilling with a plan, use external help judiciously, and measure progress against the skills change plan.

Learn more about re-skilling for SOA:
- read the article at CIO

ALSO:
- read this on SOA governance
- this on taking it slow with SOA deployments
- and this on the basics of SOA