Almost a decade has passed since the service‐oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm first appeared, extending a pledge to change, repair, enhance, and promote software development best practices. The mission to build enduring, re‐usable, and elastic services that can withstand market volatility and be effortlessly modified to embrace technological changes has been gaining momentum. Governance and best practices have been devised. Existing off‐the‐shelf products already embody fundamental SOA best practices, such as software reuse, nimbleness, loose coupling, adaptability, interoperability, and consolidation. From a project management perspective, stronger ties have been established between the business institution and information technology (IT) organization. The silo implementation paradigm has been rather weakened and cross‐enterprise initiatives have been moderately increased. This chapter looks at whether the computing trend has succeeded in influencing any of the customary software implementation approaches and whether the new paradigm has been able to foster architecture best practices that have altered the old genre of software construction methodologies.