SOA Migration, Adoption, and Reuse Technique (SMART) Training

Many organizations are migrating legacy components to service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments with the goals of cost-efficiency, agility, adaptability, and the leveraging of legacy investments. However, before starting a migration, it is important to make a realistic assessment of the cost, risk and feasibility of migrating a specific set of legacy components to a specific SOA environment.

The SOA Migration, Adoption, and Reuse Technique (SMART) helps organizations to develop a realistic strategy for the migration of legacy components to a specific SOA target environment. SMART considers the specific characteristics of the target SOA environment and any changes that must be made to the legacy components to adapt to the environment.

This two-day course provides training in SMART. Individuals participating in this two-day interactive course will gain hands-on experience using the templates of the SMART process through activities and case studies. Realistic scenarios and exercises will allow students to practice SMART methods to demonstrate their grasp of the concepts and their readiness to participate in field exercise pilots.

Who should attend?

• Technical managers and software engineers who need to understand the details of the SMART process
• Individuals tasked with the migration of legacy systems to SOA environments
• Individuals who wish to become SMART Team Leads

Topics

• Overview of SMART
• Case Study Presentation
• Hands-on exercises for each step in the SMART process:
• Establish migration context
• Determine feasibility of migration
• Define candidate services
• Describe existing capability
• Describe target SOA environment
• Analyze the gap
• Develop migration strategy
• SMART Family: variations of SMART to address multiple entry points to SOA adoption
• SMART Tool: a tool to increase the efficiency of the interview portion of the process

Course work includes lectures, discussion, and exercises.

Objectives

• an understanding of the SMART method for determining the feasibility and effort required for the migration of legacy components to SOA environments
• hands-on experience with the SMART process and templates

Prerequisites

Before registering for this course, participants must have

• successfully completed Service-Oriented Architecture: Best Practices for Successful Adoption and Service-Oriented Architecture: Legacy Systems Migration; or
• successfully completed Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments-eLearning

Materials

Participants will receive copies of slides and exercises.

Schedule

This two-day course meets at the following times:

Days 1-2: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.