SOA Governance requires more than just development methodologies, policies, rules and software. Learn the organizational changes necessary to succeed with SOA Governance.
A helpful look into organizational ownership of SOA Governance. From the Resource: "Who Governs the Governance? While multiple people at the executive level will certainly provide input for a governance strategy, one person must assume a leadership role: that is, someone must take ultimate ownership of the process. But who? The title can vary depending on the structure of the organization."
"Organizational change is one of the key elements in a successful SOA Governance program, re-structuring organizational relationships among IT professionals and, more importantly, between IT organizations and business units."
Benjamin Moreland, director of IT foundation services in the Property and Casualty group at The Hartford shares guidance on their organizationl designs related to SOA Governance. From the article: SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. 'In P&C, we have a high-level project governance process and an SOA architectural steering committee.' The SOA steering committee includes application architects who assess proposed new services based on such criteria as supportability, reusability and adherence to the company's SOA reference architecture.
