Microsoft posted an article regarding the self-help edition of the Microsoft Motion methodology called 'Motion Lite'.

 

I love Motion, at least aethetically so far; I have the reference map printed on my wall.

 

Catch my other posts regarding motion here and here.

 

As I mentioned in a previous post, Motion is an exciting new methodology for understanding your business and taking advantage of SOA.  Note that I have updated the links in that post.

 

Numerous "Motion" articles and presentations refer to the book "Reengineering the Corporation" as "an essential basis to understanding more about Motion and Business Capabilities" (Matt Deacon's blog).  I quickly purchased the audio version of the book at audible.com.  I will post a review shortly.

 

I am truly struck at how rapidly the "Motion" initiative is surfacing in journals, conferences, and the like.  This is going to be big!

 

A revolution in enterprise architecture is underway.  Check out the new Microsoft Motion Framework - a stunning new methodology for building business solutions that can be more easily described, take better advantage of infrastructure, and use service-orientation.

 

Watch the channel9 video - Microsoft gets down to business with Motion initiative - and marvel at business capability maps.  As Ric Merrifield explains, a map of business capabilities - the "what" rather than the "how" - can inform business acquisitions and mergers, better describe your IT requirements, and empower service-orientation.  Additional interviews with Ric are here and here.

 

Read the article - A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation - which then discusses how to build a map.   The modeling process is also described in this presentation from the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, and in the article Service-Oriented Modeling for Connected Systems in The Architecture Journal - Issue 7.  Update: Part 2 is now online.

 

The rabbit hole continues with the complementary notion of Infrastructure Capabilties.  It describes how business capabilties can, as Ric suggests, be mapped to infrastructure capabilties.  The interesting Windows Server System Reference Architecture is also mentioned.

 

Ric's map bears such a wonderful resemblance to the Team System Distributed System Designers.    I can only hope that the VS platform will in the future support business capability mapping.  In the meantime I would love a chance to employ the Microsoft Services team!