Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

Chapter 4. Organizing Your SOA Governance Toolkit

The objective of this chapter is to build your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance toolkit so you can assess your current governance model, determine your governance requirements for SOA going forward, and then devise an appropriate SOA governance model for your organization. This SOA governance toolkit will ensure alignment of your governance model to your business, Information Technology (IT), and SOA strategy, and map to your current stage of SOA adoption. Your SOA Governance Toolkit is comprised of two major categories of tools:

1. Governance Assessment Tools. Understanding the current state of governance through assessments, gap analysis, and SOA adoption maturity and SOA governance maturity analyses of your organization.

2. Governance Model Design Tools. Defining your target SOA governance model based on the assessment, gap analysis, and business goals.

These will be supported by governance implementation and governance performance management and evolution processes. All of these tools and processes will be necessary for your SOA governance journey. You must realize that SOA governance is not a single event or a milestone on a project plan. SOA governance is a lifestyle change for most organizations. Those organizations manifesting some fundamental governance competencies will have an easier migration to SOA governance than those without those competencies. Organizations without basic governance capabilities of any kind ...