Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

10.15. DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNANCE COLLABORATION TOOLS

One area of development is establishing appropriate governance collaboration tools and platforms to facilitate enterprise governance for large organizations with very distributed operations, yet which want to establish a consistent and effective governance model. Such tools would create virtual organizational models, establish governance process workflows, and manage events and policy enforcement triggers as defined by a governance process owner.

Without overspecifying what a governance collaboration tool might do, we envision the following high-level capabilities:

• Allow definition of governance organizational models based on various corporate, IT, and governance organizational templates (e.g., functional structure, federated governance, autonomous business units, geographic structures, product line organizations, etc.).

• Support a library of governance process models for major categories of IT and enterprise governance, including portfolio management, enterprise architecture, funding and budgeting, project and program management/PMO, and even SDLC governance. These process models should be customizable to support tailoring them to your organization's requirements. Furthermore, such process modules would allow the linking or threading of governance processes into extended processes based on multi-level policies such as reuse and security, which can be enforced at multiple levels and across multiple processes in an enterprise. ...