Establishing an SOA composite applications development process for work- based learning and competency progression management

There are management issues surrounding the development process required for creation of software components that are to be implemented in applications and offered as constituents of a component or service framework. We offer ways of ensuring capability in a development team to provide services that may be assembled into multiple composite applications. We identify the following interrelated factors as necessary to the move to successful service based application development; model driven development, process capability and maturity, system requirements traceability, facilitating collaboration between domain experts and the technical implementers and process based support for the development team. The proposed development process provides a basis for development project management and for support for all the involved roles.