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Part One discusses the service life cycle model and its various building blocks. It elaborates
on service evolution management mechanisms during given projects and business initiatives.
It also discusses various life cycle perspectives that enable monitoring and assessment of a
project??™s process. Chapters 2 and 3 set the stage for the management of service-oriented modeling
disciplines that are discussed throughout the book. They provide a solid framework for the
service-oriented modeling environment and will be practical for business and IT executives,
product managers, project managers, architects, and lead developers.
Part Two is dedicated to the service-oriented conceptualization process and elaborates
on various mechanisms that can help organizations to establish common concepts and identify
conceptual services and establish enterprise taxonomies. This Part is targeted at product managers,
business architects, business analysts, technical architects, technical managers, team leaders, and
developers. Chapters 4 and 5 introduce a step-by-step and an easy-to-employ concept discovery
process that yields conceptual solution propositions to organizational problems.
Part Three delves into service-oriented discovery and analysis mechanisms. This Part
furnishes best practices and procedures that should be used to discover new services and even
employ legacy applications to provide viable business and technological solutions.
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