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It seems to be a reoccurring theme this year, but I’ll restate the obvious. If the business experts (aka domain experts) can not communicate effectively with each other, due to a lack of common business language, there is no way that their application will be able to communication with other systems.
Since the IT world has started on this Service Oriented Architecture kick, and getting systems to “talk” to each other is all the rage in management, it is important to remember that a lot of these systems were built as silos, not just because the developers never thought about making their applications open, but because the business experts never thought about being open, too. It is a heck of a lot easier to retrain the developer to think in a service oriented manner then it is to retrain the business experts to document their business rules. As developers, we have been trained to accept (and even expect) change, but that isn’t the case for the rest of the business world.
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