I’m starting with module 4, ‘SOA Project and Delivery Methodology.’ I have yet to listen to either the Audio Tutor or Exam CD’s. I’m just reading through the workbook first.  As with all of the workbook material, each page is a PowerPoint slide with half the page left over for notes. When your studying this without the classroom lecturer, note taking seems pointless unless you like to just write what you read to ingrain it in your head. That sometimes works for me. Possibly when I fire up the audio tutor it will go hand in hand with the workbook. I suspect it will.

As with all of Thomas Erl’s training material, a fair amount of it comes directly from one of his published textbooks and the case studies in them.

I;m glad he doesn’t send a lot of time on analysis basics and any one process. He sticks to defining the steps required to identify entity, utility, task, and orchestrated services. This includes defining candidate to concrete capabilities. He also relies upon an iterative approach more emphasized by RUP than Agile, although he makes references to the Agile methodology.

As expected, the first part of this is just the basics and a common lexicon carried over from modules 1. 2. & 3. As titled, this module is more aligned toward methodology and delivery than modeling and identifying specific services.