Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

1.22. ESTABLISH THE "RIGHT" SOA GOVERNANCE MODEL AND POLICIES

SOA governance is essential for managing the decisions and policies of your SOA. You must get your SOA governance model right to achieve your SOA goals, period. SOA governance establishes alignment of your SOA strategy to your business, as well as defining the enterprise architecture policies and interoperability standards for the services in your SOA. SOA governance is a must! SOA governance is more than the technical policies and design standards for building reusable interoperable services. SOA governance also establishes the decision framework for funding SOA efforts and initiatives, for assigning ownership of various classes of services, as well as ensuring appropriate development lifecycle processes support SOA. Below are a few SOA governance considerations to get your governance model right:

• SOA governance is more than technology and tools. Many vendors are on the SOA governance bandwagon with service registries, repositories, distributed enforcement tools, and more. However, before you can successfully implement the tools, you must establish the SOA processes, policies, and enforcement mechanisms that support and enable SOA success. Separate the process of governing SOA from the supporting technology and tools. Do not buy any SOA technology or tools and expect to solve your SOA governance needs. This simply is not possible.

• Govern the "right" things. SOA governance means establishing roles and responsibilities ...