http://soagovsource.com/weblog Resource Listing Weblog Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:07:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SOA Governance best practices from Gartner: "1) Ensure that you have appropriate executive-level buy-in and a dependable executive sponsor: communicate the importance of mitigating project risks due to the lack of SOA governance. 2) Integrate SOA governance with application governance. 3) Create competency around organizational change. 4) For SOA, identify ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/27/soa-governance-best-practices-application-and-soa-governance-the-who-what-and-why/ "SOA governance is not a tool or a product. SOA governance is about people and leadership. No tool will deliver good governance out the box if human factor is not taken into consideration. However the right tool can facilitate and provide transparency into SOA governance." Link to Resource: SOA Governance Tools Source: ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/27/soa-governance-quotes-by-media-soa-governance-tools/ "SOA without governance is like a class full of brilliant students without a teacher." Link to Resource: Making Your SOA Journey Successful - Key Aspects Source: Shubhankar Sumar, Infosys SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Metaphors http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/23/soa-governance-metaphors-making-your-soa-journey-successful-key-aspects/ An etherial look at SOA Governance that provides intriguing perspectives on SOA Governance's definition, role and place. From the Resource: "After giving it some consideration, I realized that there must be an underlying elephant behind all of this and set out to define it. The rest of this article will ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/23/soa-governance-explored-quest-for-true-soa/ "To get the reuse, flexibility, agility, and ease of integration that SOA promises, design time governance must ensure that services are built in a consistent manner that provides business value, meets certain performance and security requirements, is platform neutral, and does not break anything that already is deployed." Link to Resource: ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/22/soa-governance-design-time-soa-governance-balancing-process-and-agility/ "Runtime governance is crucial because of the distributed and abstract nature of SOA. A single business service may be made up of a number of components within numerous layers of the architecture. When that service fails, you better have the proper processes and tools in place to quickly identify the ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/22/soa-governance-run-timesoa-governance-run-time-soa-governance-balancing-process-and-agility/ An extremely valuable, in-depth look at SOA Governance. Highly recommended. From the Resource: "The bigger the SOA, the more governance it needs, and the more complex the governance roles and mechanisms must be. Governance arrangements take a long time to design and install, and are difficult to enforce, but without ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/21/soa-governance-explored-application-and-soa-governance-the-who-what-and-why/ "Key risks of delivering SOA without proper governance in place: 1) Misalignment of Business and IT Objectives due to a lack of common goals being communicated. 2) Opportunity Cost for not achieving the maximum ROI from SOA. 3) Loss of Momentum in making progress to achieve the long term goals ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/21/soa-governance-benefits-soa-challenges-in-an-ungoverned-environment/ "SOA is architecture and philosophy not a technology. It can provide value only when coupled with good governance. As long as the overall architecture is correct, some of the implementation errors can be corrected along the way." Link to Resource: Results of a SOA Case Study competition show main ingredients for ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/21/soa-governance-quotes-by-users-results-of-a-soa-case-study-competition-show-main-ingredients-for-soa-success/ "There are a number of reasons why companies do not have a robust enough governance model. Here are a few reasons that I have seen: 1) Lack complete understanding of both design time and runtime best practices. 2) Culture does not support standards and best practices. 3) Lack of funding ... http://soagovsource.com/weblog/2008/10/21/soa-governance-best-practices-soa-governance-balancing-process-and-agility/