Dan Hughes is a principal consultant with Systems Flow, Inc.. Systems Flow helps organizations dramaticallySystems Flow improve their competitive advantage through the practical, effective application of best practices in enterprise architecture and software development. He is engagement lead at Citizens Bank where he guided the launch of the enterprise architecture practice and is currently enterprise architect for Citizens Bank’s Basel II implementation.

Dan has 15 years of software engineering experience spanning a broad range of technologies and techniques. Startup to enterprise, he has launched, managed, and executed all aspects of both product and enterprise life cycle for clients in industries ranging from industrial automation to banking and insurance. He has a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dan maintains a blog on Software Engineering at www.xengineering.com.

Presentation
A Lightweight Approach to Service Design Specifications
Somewhere between not enough and too much lies the correct scope of artifacts documenting service designs. This presentation will explore a service design methodology that is based on design best practices and implemented and refined within the SOA organization of a large enterprise. Content, format, and a "how to" approach will be discussed as well as challenges and strategies for handling them.

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