Without a coherent enterprise approach and a clear direction
to drive service life cycles, it would be impossible to fund projects, manage and schedule
timetables, and guide service-oriented practitioners.
One of the most important aspects of the service-oriented life cycle process is the tracking
mechanism that enables us to pinpoint the progress of a service??™s evolution. We should be
able to examine the quality of our deliverables and be engaged in the planning of a service??™s
transformation during its life span. This chapter answers the following questions:
??? How can we establish service development and operations scenarios to address random
and unpredictable business and technological events?
??? How can an aggregated and distributed service structures be depicted in our serviceoriented
life cycle plan?
??? How can we gauge the progress of our service development or production initiatives?
??? What is the mechanism that will enable us to perfect our service-oriented deliverables?
??? How can we set efficient timetables and schedule modeling and nonmodeling discipline
activities?
Detailed answers to these questions are provided in the following sections, each of which
elaborates on the various perspectives that drive our service life cycle projects and depicts services
life cycle planning best practices and guidance mechanisms.
SERVICE-ORIENTED LIFE CYCLE WORKFLOWS: INTRODUCTION
A service-oriented life cycle workflow depicts the progress and the evolution of a service along the
service life cycle timeline, which also spans the design-time and the run-time seasons.
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