SOA Implementation Effort Online Survey

Introduction

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this very important survey.

This survey has been developed to collect knowledge related to SOA implementation from experts who have rich experiences in the SOA area.

Your answers will help the NICTA researchers to identify the effort factors associated with SOA-based software development and propose corresponding cost/effort estimation methods.

This survey should take no more than 15 minutes of your time.

Your answers are completely confidential, and can also be anonymous. But if you supply your contact information at the end of this survey, we will email you a copy of the research conclusions.

Many thanks for your assistance with this research.

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* Q1: What, in your opinion, are the three (or more) most influential factors which drive effort on SOA projects?

* Q2: What, in your opinion, are the three (or more) most influential factors which drive effort on Service Discovery?

* Q3: What, in your opinion, are the three (or more) most influential factors which drive effort on Service Mining?

* Q4: What, in your opinion, are the three (or more) most influential factors which drive effort on Service Development?

* Q5: What, in your opinion, are the three (or more) most influential factors which drive effort on Service Integration?

* Q6: How many years experience do you have in the software industry?

years

* Q7: What best describes your role in your most recent SOA project?

* Q8: What is the complexity of your most recent SOA project?

Simple (Level 1)

      ● Departmental

      ● Typically a single tactical solution for a business problem

      ● Web Services-based integration and service enablement - basic connectivity to important resources (mostly service-based data access layer)

      ● Provides an Application Platform Suite (Portal, Integration, Messaging) that allows development of fine-grained and coarse-grained services

      ● Service-oriented development of applications

Medium (Level 2)

      ● Inter-departmental

      ● Provides a framework for composite application development with more than one application involved

      ● Promotes policy-based computing, policy management/SLA management

      ● ESB Support/distributed large deployment support (manage/deploy/administer)

      ● Registers, discovers, manages, and monitors all shared WS across the enterprise platform

Complex (Level 3)

      ● Enterprise-wide

      ● Control & management of large distributed enterprise - agent based/fan-out technologies

      ● Policy-directed command-control fabric/uptime requirements/performance requirements

      ● Built in governance models for specific business processes

      ● Federated management (Level 4, most advanced, globally distributed)

* Q9: What percentage of your most recent SOA project implementation was the development effort (only considering those four activities outlined above Service Discovery, Service Mining, Service Development, and Service Integration)?

* Q10: What percentage of your most recent SOA project implementation was the management effort?

* Q11: Which of the following, best describes the industry for whom this project was developed?

* Q12: Approximately how many people are in the organization for whom this project was developed?

Contact Information (Optional):

First Name:

Last Name:

Email Address:

Organization (if applicable):

Please contact zheng.li@nicta.com.au if you have any questions regarding this survey.