Everything that has a beginning has an end. At last this course is over (Wohoo!)

So what was the entire course about?!

About everything :) , there were talking about various subjects (SOA, project management, weather, phone hacking etc.) in lectures.

What is the added value of attending this course for you?

Overall I think that this course was very valuable. At last I realized what is SOA, and why do we need SOA at all.

There was much talk about project management, and such talks allowed me to get a global view of how projects are managed.

It was very good experience working in project, it gave me a very valuable knowledge how web services are implemented.

What is the immediate benefit for you in your current professional situation?

It is very hard to describe immediate benefit, which I have got in this course, I think the benefit will come out later, because the gained knowledge are always useful, sooner or later.

How do you see SOA being helpful in your professional environment?

SOA is “unknown land” for my company bosses where I am working, at the current time, and I don’t think that I could realize my gained knowledge about SOA at the current job. Maybe if I change my job, I could apply my knowledge.

How do you see SOA in 5 years from now?

I think after 5 years SOA will be a prevailing software engineering practice, ending long year’s domination of monolithic software architecture

What are the pros and cons of “totally online” computing?

I would say, that there’re only arguments for being “totally online”, because what you need, you get immediately. The point of being “totally online” is that you save your time, your money and yourself, “totally online” computing makes the world go around faster and faster.

How would you use Web 2.0 in commercial projects?

There’re plenty of Web 2.0 enabled products online, and each one offers pretty much all the same things: blogging, sharing anything and mashing together services you need. So, if I had a choice, I would try to mush up existing services into one new product.

How would have you organized this course if given a chance? Please think both from the contents and the form perspective.

It would be great idea to define the scope of the course. Do we talk about SOA, project management or about man’s life?

Practical projects should be announced earlier, not at the end of course, and the giving mark rules should be announced earlier too.

What the lecturers did wrong?

First: Lectures took approximately about 5 – 6 hours at Saturdays, and everybody would agree that lectures were too long.

Second: Irregular lectures at Saturdays (it was difficult to plan my weekends).

Third: Too much small talk and too less meaningful talk.

Off course there were some interesting lectures, but also some extremely boring and prolonged.

What the lecturers were good at?

Lecturers really know how to excite student’s interests and curiosity, and involve students in discussions, and it was quite interesting listen to lecturers how they’re sharing their experience with us. Also Lecturers were really damn good orators.

Donatas G.edgaudas