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Colliding trends: Can Agile survive SOA? Or vice versa?

Last I looked, Agile and its brethren had a few things in common: iteration, incremental development, high day-to-day interaction with business partners, and a recognition that figuring it out as you go along works better than trying to create a complete specification before starting to code.

Last I looked, the methodologies associated with Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) were gravitating to what looks like a big black hole to me (clever, eh?): Understanding the entire enterprise architecture first so designers have a complete grasp of the services that run the business.

Then you can start coding. Maybe.

Am I missing something, or has the SOA contingent taken a serious step backward into waterfall?

- Bob Lewis

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