Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

6.24. SOA GOALS, PRINCIPLE, AND POLICY MANAGEMENT

Policies and policy management in general, must be defined, managed, versioned, deprecated, and retired using an ongoing management and oversight process that parallels service portfolio management activities. In Chapter 10, we place this discipline under the heading of "Governance Performance Management." Governance Performance Management is the ongoing process ownership and sustainment of enterprise governance processes and disciplines, as well as the management of the enterprise policy model.

Policies are defined by multiple members of the IT organization who play a role in the definition of the SOA governance model and overall SOA vision and strategy. IT managers, chief technology officers, chief architects, architects, development managers, team and/or project leaders can play a role in defining the policies that will comprise the SOA governance model. Exhibit 6.14 depicts the processes required to implement a sustained goal, principle, and policy management capability as part of your governance performance management function.

Figure 6.14. Goal, Principle, and Policy Management Processes

Ultimately, policies are derived from the business and technical requirements of the SOA initiative and the portfolio of services that will operate in the SOA over time. Therefore, it is likely that an initial body of policies will be defined ...