SOA governance

SOA governance must assure that this becomes a reality and there must be a clear means of communicating that to all stakeholders.

SOA governance is not just a single set of practices, but many sets of practices coordinated together.

The processes in the proposed SOA governance lifecycle can be very helpful in combination with a maturity model.

One of the fundamental goals of SOA governance, of course, is to insure that the use of each service generates the expected return.

However, the architecture is related with IT elsewhere in the organization, so SOA governance needs to be agreed upon with other parties.

Regardless of the current level of maturity, you need to understand that SOA governance maturity cannot be achieved overnight.

For this reason, strong consideration should be given to the early adoption of a federated SOA Governance model.

For that reason, we'll start with a "top-down" SOA Governance approach and define a SOA Governance Lifecycle Model, first.

Overall, SOA Governance properly applied has helped SOA as it has enabled visibility to the business and traceable ROI for project efforts.

My recommendation is to include SOA governance as a critical piece of your SOA roadmap.

Eric: As I mentioned in the previous question, SOA governance work has really empowered architects to get close to the business.

In fact, establishing SOA Governance can be a challenging, disruptive, and destructive force in an enterprise's SOA efforts.

A framework that provides context and definitions to enable organizations to understand and deploy SOA governance.

Unfortunately, due to the mixing of Governance and Management realms, we are having such a mess in SOA Governance.

Now that we had a brief overview of IT governance, what does "SOA Governance" really mean?

A discussion of SOA governance would not be complete without addressing the Big SOA, Little SOA debate.

SOA governance certainly should include elements of enforcement, control and policing, but it needs to be much more.

SOA Governance Technology is technology used to enable governance and the whole or partial automation of the governing processes.

In the case of SOA governance policies, an enterprise architect's lengthy requirements document will likely be ignored by most developers.

The chief architect is obviously involved in deciding the SOA vision, but should also point out the direction of SOA governance.

Centralized management of WSDL and associated metadata in an external registry, enabling the establishment of overall SOA governance.

SOA governance is not a given -- organizations with existing organizational and IT governance do not have SOA governance naturally.

The OMG SOA SIG counted up to " 18 SOA Governance definitions by industry analysts, members of the media and users" .

SOA Governance should certainly build upon any such governance in place and extend it to information services that are part of the SOA.

SOA governance also needs to keep a constant connection between business and IT through the concept of domain ownership.

Service Lifecycle Management is the application of SOA governance to the actual construction of your SOA and SOA Services.

SOA governance is about planning, defining, enabling, and measuring around the service life cycle.

SOA governance dictates standards for consequent implementation of SOA in all parts of the organization.

Understanding these pillars will clearly define what "top down" and "bottom up" SOA Governance approaches actually mean.

SOA governance should also align with your organization's enterprise architecture program.

SOA governance provides the mechanisms to control the desired behavior of the organization as the SOA adoption matures.

The advantage of having such a matrix is that it forms a simple overview of the development path of SOA governance.

Good governance is not SOA governance but rather the embedding of SOA governance into existing and perhaps enhanced governance processes.

This list does not mean that other areas may not or should not be covered by SOA Governance.

At this step architects collaborate to review the current SOA governance plan and use it as a basis for modeling the SOA implementation.

The importance of involving Communities of Interest in the SOA Governance process cannot be overestimated.

So what about governance focused on services, otherwise known as SOA Governance?

SOA governance should be introduced prior to your first major SOA project, during any initial SOA pilot projects.

SOA Governance Process Artifacts are new artifacts created explicitly to support governance processes, like roadmaps, plans, and policies.

UDDI adoption without an agreed upon SOA governance model leads to process inefficiencies as well as design inefficiency.

By doing this, one may realize that some of the existing tools could satisfy some of the SOA governance tooling needs.

Establishing SOA Governance should also be seen as providing another opportunity to bridge any gaps between enterprise and IT governance.

SOA Governance -- A cross-cutting scenario focusing on a decision-making and enforcement process to oversee SOA planning and execution.

SOA governance requires a consistent decision-making framework for repetitive decisions, enforced via policy enforcement.

Service versioning also belongs in any discussion of SOA governance, which you'll learn more about in a moment.

Jeff has raised an important set of questions that every SOA governance organization should ask at some point.

Another job of the enterprise architect is to continually monitor the SOA governance policies.

SGMM also includes a methodology with plan, define, enable, and measure cycles which are much like the SGVM in the SOA Governance standard.

RMC helps to author, configure, view, and publish processes, in this case, all of your SOA Governance processes.

I have to explain what I mean by SOA and by Enterprise Architecture before positioning SOA Governance.

A sample set has been provided, but which ones apply will be a function of the SOA governance principles and maturity.

Monitor phase monitors the effectiveness of the currently deployed SOA Governance Regimen and whether it is meeting its intended purpose.

Lack of design-time coherence (SOA governance model) is the leading cause of this antipattern.

SOA Governance does not exist in isolation, it is a part of the Enterprise Governance.

The SOA governance board decides on how the SOA governance lifecycle is implemented.

SOA governance supports and guides the iterative SOA implementation cycle of Service Lifecycle Management.

The methodology and model for adopting SOA governance from IBM is called the SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM).

This requires more extensive design phase and SOA Governance with collaborative involvement from the QA team and related parties.

This means that it is not straightforward to import the services into an SOA governance registry.

Chapter 12 concludes this section with an practical SOA governance and service lifecycle framework.

Rick Sweeney, an Enterprise Architecture consultant, shared his views on getting started with SOA Governance.

The SOA Governance sets the rules that regulate service compositions and related service collaborations.

Acts as a pilot for adopting SOA governance and new service life cycle management processes.

More interesting is the differing emphasis on SOA Governance between respondents from Europe and North America.

How these parties are involved is described for each of the SOA governance lifecycle processes.

Initially, SOA governance has limited scope and concerns itself mainly with a fairly limited area where IT and Business interests overlap.

This model defines six main processes which need to be executed to perform good SOA governance.

Tooling around SOA governance is evolving as best practices and standards are being identified and developed.

This should concur with the need for SOA governance; in fact design-time governance is needed to enforce standardized services.

Research and articles have shown that's not the case for SOA and SOA Governance.

In order to establish SOA governance, a few fundamental tasks need to be considered.

Each SOA Program area requires a different approach to SOA Governance and affects "policy" differently.

SOA governance enforces the use of discipline to maintain consistency and relevance within the SOA life cycle.

Does the existence of SOA governance mean that cloud governance is a solved problem?

SOA Governance impacts corporate architecture potentially on all levels.

Like SOA governance, SOA Service Lifecycle Management is an iterative process as illustrated in Figure 2.

The strategy has to be defined in balanced scope so as to incorporate SOA governance incrementally just like SOA is adopted.

Following is description on two very fundamental tasks that support SOA governance-related goals.

However, all parties active in SOA governance should be involved in the entire lifecycle.

It defines governance, IT governance, SOA governance, and the difference to management or compliance.

The process of adopting SOA with an SOA reference model, an SOA maturity model, and SOA governance.

It gave you an overview of the key elements of our SOA governance model.

Her job description serves as blueprint for the new discipline "SOA Governance" .

How was your SOA Governance organization involved in enabling this collaboration?

SOA governance guides how the services change over time.

Also, SOA governance should extend beyond IT governance to include business leaders.

We have addressed these topics in a SOA governance lifecycle model.

Despite multiple efforts in SOA Governance standardisation, there are still some conceptual areas for improvement.

SOA governance builds on existing IT governance techniques and practices.

Further, SOA governance that influences the management activities is closely related to asset governance.

That is, the SOA Governance must be one level above those who construct SOA and its implementation.

Pretty likely your IT governance will profit from your SOA governance program (and vice versa).

A Big bang approach is not recommended in implementation of SOA and neither it is in implementing SOA governance.

SOA governance and processes , as defined above, underpins these four phases.

Don't care about terminology here: You'll need proper tools for both design- and runtime SOA governance.

This board should represent the stakeholders of SOA governance; from business and from IT.

Our model can help architects in determining the current maturity level of their organization's SOA governance.

Service Lifecycle Management is a central part of SOA governance.

Something we discovered relatively late in the process of helping customers adopt SOA is the strong need for SOA governance.

This article will address the most basic challenges in establishing SOA Governance.

This article will show how IBM is leading the establishment of SOA Governance standards.

Specifically, how SOA Governance relates to an organization with well defined ISO 9000 or CMMI processes.

Like everything else in SOA governance, security is a multifaceted issue.

In addition SOA Governance provides a framework for the reuse and sharing of services, a key value derived from leveraging SOA.

Virtual Machine (VM) governance does, however, have some overlaps with the "lifecycle governance" benefits of SOA Governance.

This means that support at CxO level is needed, and SOA governance needs to become centralized.

The versioning policies must comprise both design-time and run-time aspects, and should be enforced through SOA governance.

Often this leads to the initiation of some kind of SOA governance board (or Center of Excellence).

In the table below, some hints are given on the changing requirements on SOA governance lifecycle stages for each maturity level.

Service certification is a critical part of SOA governance.

We defined two terms, Service Life cycle, and SOA Governance, which are core elements of SOA.

The most fundamental aspect of SOA governance is overseeing the creation of services.

In this process the roles and responsibilities for SOA governance are defined.

IBM offers the following key products that enable the service lifecycle within SOA Governance.

I am so confident in this SOA Governance position because service orientation is about implementing real business products and procedures.

SOA Governance process should ensure that needs of the QA team are met.

SOA Governance is minimal, and focuses on the scope of the project.

SOA Governance manages the way services are being developed and described so that somebody would be incented to reuse them.

It is also a key component for SOA governance, applied throughout the lifecycle of services.

IBM brings extensive customer experience using SGMM, the governance maturity model, and SOA Governance structure to the table.

It also describes the challenges addressed by SOA governance.

The argument should not be which SOA governance is more important, but rather on how to implement both of them correctly.

In many cases, the need for SOA governance has encouraged enterprises to revisit and reinvigorate their IT and Enterprise governance.

The components of governance suite allow enterprise to build end-to-end SOA governance.

The group agreed that SOA Governance is key to reuse but it is also a new process for the enterprise.

SOA governance is not only about service metadata provisioning.

It should be noted that SOA Governance is a pillar in itself.

These aspects of SOA governance each deserve discussion in greater detail in subsequent articles.

ISMM helps us to understand key aspects of SOA Governance, Security and Management.

The maturity levels need to have some kind of specification of what to expect from SOA governance in each stage.

I have seen many companies fall into two different traps when attempting to implement SOA governance.

InfoQ: SOA Governance became a major component of SOA right around 2004, do you think it has helped or hindered SOA?

Where does the SOA Governance hide after all?

It is important to note that the SOA governance process is never left behind.

Conceptually, the way that the relationship between Enterprise, IT, and SOA governance changes over time is shown in figure 1 above.

It's the effective management of this life cycle that is the key goal to SOA governance.

SOA governance would benefit from existing IT and Enterprise governance.

We are also making an excerpt (SOA Governance chapter; 1, 353 KB PDF) from the Java SOA Cookbook available for our readers.

In part one we learned about governance in general and discussed Enterprise, IT and SOA governance and how they are related.

With this information, you should have a good idea of why your SOA efforts need SOA governance.

In part 2 of the series, we walked through governance lifecycle and how best we should organize for SOA and SOA governance.

These are not necessary steps, but possible ways of improving SOA governance along the way.

SOA governance is the intersection of business and IT governance focused on the life cycle of services to ensure the business value of SOA.

It is the effective management of this lifecycle that is the key goal of SOA Governance.

For example, during the definition stage of SOA governance, asset repositories can also be defined for service assets.

How did you go about building your SOA Governance organization and processes?

All of the above are aspects of SOA governance, aren't they?

Thus, real pragmatic SOA Governance is the one that guards and promotes business objectives across Business and Technology.

The RedBook then addresses organizational aspects of Process, IT and SOA governance.

In part 2, we walk through governance lifecycle and how best we should organize for SOA and SOA governance.

Welcome to the world of SOA governance.

Based on given explanation, we can draw a hierarchy of the SOA Governance structure as shown on the Figure 2.

How do you see the alignment between Process, IT and SOA Governance?

Where are you in your SOA Governance effort?

These challenges have led to requirements of defining and enforcing the following processes as part of the SOA governance model

An SOA governance tool should be integrated with a version control system [. . . ]

Rick also sees the need for a third component: the Enterprise SOA Governance group. Its role is to

The SOA governance board should improve adoption of SOA principles by imposing standards and advocating SOA principles in the organization

Guidelines for architects in a maturing SOA Governance environment

A summary of lessons learned from this scenario -- first the problems of an environment without SOA governance

The SOA Governance Reference Model is supported by a number of elements

A description of how we think architects should be involved in SOA governance processes

SOA governance: The foundation of Service Lifecycle Management

Using a maturity model, and linking this to all SOA governance processes

A framework of main processes that SOA governance should relate to

IBM's approach: SOA Governance and Management Method

They also comment on the importance of SOA Governance