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Evolved Media wrote a very popular document for an international software company: a design guide for developing services that adhere to the company's desired governance structure and architectural vision.

This guide serves as a gentle but thorough introduction to the process of designing collections of useful services. It is designed to educate those involved in designing and implementing solutions about the nature of services and the role they should play in a solution. Second, it presents a detailed process for discovering, designing, and describing a service.

The guide is gentle because the context is explained, not in an elementary manner as in a Dummies book, but quickly, for sophisticated engineers and business analysts. The explanations provide enough detail to make everything quite clear so that the document can be useful to the largest possible audience.

The guide is thorough in its end-to-end, top-to-bottom explanation of how to design and precisely describe and document services. Because services represent a new dimension of design, differing in both user interactions and business processes, even people with a great deal of experience in the field need a thorough guide such as this one to fully grasp the concepts involved.