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  1. Iowa Department of Administrative Services IT Enterprise Service- Oriented Architecture SOA Readiness Assessment Checklist Version 1.0 This document was prepared by Integrated Software Specialists, Inc. (“ISS”) and is to be considered confidential and proprietary to ISS and Iowa Department of Administrative Services.
  2. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 Document Control DOCUMENT INFORMATION Information © Document Id Document Owner Guillermo Tantachuco Issue Date 5/05/2006 Last Saved Date 5/05/2006 File Name IowaSOA_IRRA.doc DOCUMENT HISTORY Version Issue Date Changes 0.8 5/05/2006 “Draft” Internal Review 0.81 5/10/2006 Initial Review DOCUMENT APPROVALS Role Name Signature Date Project Sponsor Project Review Group Project Manager ISS Project Manager ISS Quality Assurance CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 2 OF 15
  3. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................5 1.1 Purpose.............................................................................................................................................5 1.2 Scope................................................................................................................................................5 1.3 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations......................................................................................5 1.4 References........................................................................................................................................5 2 IT READINESS ASSESSMENT .......................................................................................................6 2.1 benefits.............................................................................................................................................6 2.2 SOA governance..............................................................................................................................6 2.3 Software Development Life Cycle..................................................................................................6 2.3.1 Methodology..............................................................................................................................6 2.3.2 Software Development Processes..............................................................................................7 2.3.3 Modeling techniques..................................................................................................................7 2.3.4 Tool Usage.................................................................................................................................8 2.4 architecture.......................................................................................................................................8 2.4.1 General......................................................................................................................................8 2.4.2 SOA Reference Architecture......................................................................................................8 2.4.3 Security......................................................................................................................................9 2.4.4 Quality of Service.......................................................................................................................9 2.5 infrastructure services......................................................................................................................9 2.6 application portfolio.........................................................................................................................9 2.7 skills...............................................................................................................................................10 2.7.1 Understanding of SOA.............................................................................................................10 2.7.2 SOA Experience.......................................................................................................................10 2.8 common domain model (data).......................................................................................................10 2.9 organizational alignment................................................................................................................10 2.10 metrics..........................................................................................................................................11 2.11 cost...............................................................................................................................................11 CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 3 OF 15
  4. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 2.12 large-scale IT initiatives...............................................................................................................11 3 BUSINESS READINESS ASSESSMENT .....................................................................................13 3.1 benefits...........................................................................................................................................13 3.2 business sponsorship......................................................................................................................13 3.3 business processes..........................................................................................................................13 3.4 strategy...........................................................................................................................................14 3.5 SOA Awareness.............................................................................................................................14 3.6 large-scale initiatives.....................................................................................................................14 CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 4 OF 15
  5. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PURPOSE The purpose of this document is to facilitate the assessment of several key organizational and technology aspects that are essential to both mitigate risks and maximize opportunities for business benefits from a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As a result, the assessment will help provide a better understanding of the current situation and, consequently, it will establish the basis for the development of a phased SOA adoption plan that delivers early, measurable, and incremental business benefits while avoiding major disruptions. 1.2 SCOPE The SOA readiness assessment checklist will be used during the “Initial Readiness and Risks Assessment” session which is part of the VIEW™ (Vision Engineering Workshop) phase of the project. 1.3 DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture ViEW™: Vision Engineering Workshop SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle 1.4 REFERENCES None CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 5 OF 15
  6. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 2 IT READINESS ASSESSMENT 2.1 BENEFITS Please indicate the degree of importance that your IT organization will give to each of the following IT benefits: IT Benefits Importance (1=- Low, 2 = Medium, 3= High) Improve time to market or IT responsiveness Reduced total cost of ownership Reduced vendor lock-in due to standard-based interoperability Reduced software development and maintenance cost Incremental deployment to better manage expenses and risks Establish flexible platform for future expansion 2.2 SOA GOVERNANCE Please select one of the following options: No SOA governance model (organization, roles/responsibilities, processes/procedures, standards/best practices, etc) defined SOA organization and its roles and responsibilities are being (or have been) defined SOA basic processes and control procedures are being (or were) developed SOA standards and best practices are being (or were) developed SOA governance model is being (or has been) implemented at a bureau/program level SOA governance model is being (or has been) implemented at an agency level 2.3 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE 2.3.1 Methodology Please select all the options that apply to you: Structured methodology CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 6 OF 15
  7. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 Rational Unified Process Agile Methodology Extreme Programming Other 2.3.2 Software Development Processes Please one of the following options: Documentation of processes and disciplines is currently underway Processes and disciplines are used repeatedly Processes are well understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools, and methods Processes help effectively control and measure the software development effort IT organization focus on continually improving process performance through both incremental and innovative technological enhancements 2.3.3 Modeling techniques Please select all the options that apply to you: Structured analysis and design Object-oriented analysis and design Service-oriented modeling with little or no business users’ involvement Service-oriented modeling with significant business users’ involvement Model-driven architecture CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 7 OF 15
  8. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 2.3.4 Tool Usage List the tools your IT organization utilizes to support the different phases of the software development process for each environment: SDLC phase Environment Mainframe Client/Server Web Web services Analysis Design/Modeling Development Test • Functional • Regression • Performance • Load/Stress Deployment 2.4 ARCHITECTURE 2.4.1 General Please select one of the following options: No SOA initiatives currently underway Early phases of SOA adoption (planning, service definition, governance, etc) SOA Proof of concept is being (or has been) implemented Shared service layer is being (or has been) implemented for a given bureau/program Shared service layer is being (or has been) implemented across the agency Multi-year state-wide SOA implementation is in progress 2.4.2 SOA Reference Architecture Please select one of the following options: Reference architecture does not exist Some layers of the reference architecture are being (or have been) designed Design of the SOA Reference architecture is complete CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 8 OF 15
  9. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 2.4.3 Security Please select one of the following options: SOA security policy does not exist Only transport security mechanism has been defined Service provider and consumer authentication mechanism has been designed Message integrity and confidentiality mechanisms have been designed Inter-agency security mechanisms have been designed 2.4.4 Quality of Service Quality of service (a.k.a. non-functional requirements) refers to aspects such as performance, scalability, availability, reliability, management, among others. Please select one of the following options: “Quality of service” attributes won’t be taken into account at this time SOA methodology addresses and enforces compliance with “quality of service” attributes Tools and best practices are in place to support “quality of service” testing efforts Tools, processes and procedures are in place to support and monitor “quality of service” attributes in production 2.5 INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES Please select one of the following options: Infrastructure services won’t be considered at this time Basic services (connectivity, messaging, routing, transformation, security) are in place Advanced services (transaction management, metadata management, version resolution, orchestration, policy-based processing) have been deployed Common management and monitoring components are in place 2.6 APPLICATION PORTFOLIO Please select one of the following options: Legacy application functionality is not exposed as a service Identification of potential business services that can be developed from existing applications is in progress Use of service modeling techniques to service-enable legacy applications A number of business services have been deployed by service-enabling legacy applications CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 9 OF 15
  10. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 2.7 SKILLS 2.7.1 Understanding of SOA Please select the option that best describes your team’s understanding of SOA: None Somewhat familiar Fair Good Excellent 2.7.2 SOA Experience Please select the option that best describes your team’s SOA level of experience: Limited or no experience Academic A few application(s) Application(s) at a bureau level Application(s) at an agency level State-wide application(s) 2.8 COMMON DOMAIN MODEL (DATA) The Common Domain Model represents the core data (business entities) used in a given business domain. Please select one of the following options: No standardized data model exists The basis of a Common Domain Model is in place Common Domain Model used by a given bureau/program Common Domain Model actively managed for a given agency Common Domain Model supports inter-agency interaction 2.9 ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT Please select all the options that apply to you: IT organization is part of a given bureau/program IT organization serves all bureaus/programs IT is organized around bureau/programs CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 10 OF 15
  11. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 IT is organized around services IT is organized around projects 2.10 METRICS Please select one of the following options: Service development metrics do not exist Metrics exist for service creation efforts Metrics are assessed against key metrics such as development metrics, productivity measures, reuse measures, and external benchmarking 2.11 COST Please select one of the following options: Cost of a shared service layer has not been estimated Cost of initial service development has been estimated Costs to construct and operate SOA solutions are included in the budget 2.12 LARGE-SCALE IT INITIATIVES IT initiatives are considered large if they meet the following criterion: • It represented a significant shift in agency’s culture (paradigm shift) • It effected a large portion of agency’s partners • It was planned to span a large timeframe The outcome of IT initiatives can be categorized as: • 1 – Successful: It means that initiative met expectation and was delivered on time and within budget • 2 – Moderately Successful: It means that initiative met at least two of the three success criterion • 3 – Moderately Unsuccessful: It means that initiative met at least one of the three success criterion • 4 – Unsuccessful: It means that initiative met none of the three success criterion Please list the most recent IT large-scale initiatives, their outcome and their reasons for obtaining that outcome: Large-scale IT initiative Timeframe Outcome Reason(s) for outcome CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 11 OF 15
  12. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 (from MM/YYYY to (1=Successful, MM/YYYY ) 2=Moderately Successful ,3= Moderately Unsuccessful, 4 = Unsuccessful) CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 12 OF 15
  13. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 3 BUSINESS READINESS ASSESSMENT 3.1 BENEFITS Please indicate the degree of importance that your business community will give to the following business benefits: Business Benefits Importance (1=- Low, 2 = Medium, 3= High) Improve time to market or agency responsiveness to needs Lower operating costs Improve customer service and business agility by enhancing, streamlining and automating business operations Access real time business information accurately and rapidly End-to-end connectivity both internally and with third parties and consumers Eliminate manual process errors 3.2 BUSINESS SPONSORSHIP Which business stakeholder(s) are sponsoring this SOA initiative? Name Title Agency / Bureau / Program 3.3 BUSINESS PROCESSES A business process is a set of activities that produce something of value to the organization, its stakeholders and/or its customers. A business process can be part of a larger process and may include other business processes. Examples of business processes are: CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 13 OF 15
  14. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 • Determine applicant’s eligibility for Medicaid benefits (Department of Human Services) • Driver Licensing process (Department of Transportation) List the business process you feel will largely benefit from an SOA initiative. Business Process Bureau/Program Reason 3.4 STRATEGY Please select one of the following options: No SOA strategy has been defined An SOA strategy is being (or has been) developed An SOA strategy has been implemented at a bureau/program level An SOA strategy has been implemented at an agency level 3.5 SOA AWARENESS Please select one of the following options: Agency’s leadership team is not aware of business impact of SOA Agency’s leadership team has limited understanding of business impact of SOA Business benefits are fully understood by agency’s leadership team Agency’s leadership team is able to quantify business benefits 3.6 LARGE-SCALE INITIATIVES Business initiatives are considered large if they meet the following criterion: • It represented a significant shift in agency’s culture (paradigm shift) • It effected a large portion of agency’s partners CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 14 OF 15
  15. IT ENTERPRISE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOA READINESS ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST 4/18/2006 VERSION 1.0 • It was planned to span a large timeframe The outcome of business initiatives can be categorized as: • 1 – Successful: It means that initiative met expectation and was delivered on time and within budget • 2 – Moderately Successful: It means that initiative met at least two of the three success criterion • 3 – Moderately Unsuccessful: It means that initiative met at least one of the three success criterion • 4 – Unsuccessful: It means that initiative met none of the three success criterion Please list the most recent IT large-scale initiatives, their outcome and their reasons for obtaining that outcome: Large-scale Business Timeframe Outcome Reason(s) for outcome initiative (from MM/YYYY to (1=Successful, MM/YYYY ) 2=Moderately Successful ,3= Moderately Unsuccessful, 4 = Unsuccessful) CONFIDENTIAL ©2010 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, INC. PAGE 15 OF 15

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