Agile development methodology for Service-oriented architecture implementation

Alexander Ulanov, Peter Gazaryan, Andrew Zaikin

Service-oriented architecture is a modern approach for integration and optimization of enterprise business processes as well as its IT-resources. It is focused on decreasing operation expenses and increasing business agility in competitive landscape. However, the crisis imposes significant constraints on the size of IT investment projects, which makes majority of SOA program implementation methods impossible.

Authors propose an adapted agile development methodology that allows executing SOA program as a series of small project with rapid ROI, executed in parallel, and an Agile-based process of starting such program with the initial target architecture design and pilot project implementation.

Keywords: SOA, Agile methodologies, Scrum

Alexander Ulanov

Bio

Alexander Ulanov came to Exigen Services in 2004 as a software developer and in less than a year became an application architect for a complex laboratory information system and directly contributed to its successful productions in Danish healthcare organizations.

Since 2008, he actively develops Exigen’s expertise and marketing position in regard to high-end services for SOA and BPM solutions for in banking, telecom, and government sectors; as a solution architect participates in presales activities and leads several key projects.

Deeply interested in software architecture methodologies, as well as in general development process.

Started the career in laboratories of Saint-Petersburg Polytechnical University and Austrian Research Center, after finishing the university tought several courses and performed own research in the domain of interest: concurrent systems and distributed protocols.