SOA Debrief Required

I have recently left a fairly large SOA based project and feel like a need a debrief to clear my mind and move on.   Who knows - someone else my read this and find it useful. 

So, I will be adding a few posts over the next few days covering what I think about SOA, BPEL, Oracle Fusion and some of the less desirable management practices that I experienced.

I am trying to keep things anonymous to ensure plausible deniability and allow myself to be reasonably direct so please do the same in the comments.

Of course, these are just the views of one programmer (a nameless one at that) so the usual disclaimers apply.