Governance of what?!

SOA Governance is about the governance of the three fundamental elements of SOA, namely, services, components and flows. This relates to the monitoring of these elements throughout the life-cycle; putting in control and check points and policies around corrective action as we develop these.

So we are governing the process, the artifacts around services, components and flows. In the SOA Method such as SOMA
we identify, specify and realize these elements.

SOA Givernance sees to it that these elements are relevant to the organization (vitality), are being reviewed and validated by stakeholders and being communicated within the organization as the service model is being constructed within the life-cycle.

The Four Processes of SOA Governance

SOA Governance consists of four main processes: compliance, vitality, communication and life-cycle. Compliance checks for validation against reference architecture, methods and checks and balances and either issues a positive compliance, a negative or an exception may be requested. Vitality ensures the reference architecture, methods and governance processes, policies and elements are current and relevant. COmmunication ensures that the word gets out and poeple know about how to follow the method, build against or customize the SOA reference architecture. Life-cycle talks about the method: activities used in creating the Service Model.

SOA Governance Intro

Greetings!

Welcome to the blog on SOA Governance. In this blog I will try and communicate the issues, challenges, best-practices and common solutions to governance solutions around SOA.

One of the first elements of governance is to have compliance. Compliance requires a set of base blueprints such as a SOA reference model to ensure that the SOA architecture is indeed conforming with a recognized frame of reference.