3Building the Service Factory

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

—Henry Ford

In Chapter 2, “SOA Governance Assessment and Planning,” we described how to assess an organization’s current SOA maturity in terms of its capability to manage the four principal SOA domains of Plan & Organize, Program Management Controls, Service Development Lifecycle, and Service Operations. In this chapter, we discuss a practical approach to achieving the real potential of SOA through applied governance.

How to Succeed with SOA

We believe that there is a pattern or recipe for success that applies to all governance at all levels. This pattern consists of a simple set of governance tasks that can be applied ...

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