Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) Governance
Objective of Meeting
The SOA Governance project of the SOA Working Group is working to
develop industry understanding of, and create a reference framework for,
SOA Governance. It had already created a definition of SOA Governance
and defined a mapping of SOA Governance activities to the COBIT IT
governance framework. Its aims for the meeting in Austin were to:
- Finalize the SOA Governance to COBIT mapping and determine how to
document it
- Review a draft list of SOA Governance processes
- Develop lists of SOA Governance principles and key performance
indicators (KPIs)
- Decide in what form the project deliverables should be published,
and create a plan to create those deliverables
Summary
The key achievement of this meeting was the agreement on what form
the SOA Governance framework should take, and on the creation of a
practical plan to develop and publish a description of it. The framework
will take the form of a method that can be applied to define the SOA
Governance processes for an enterprise, starting from a generic SOA
Governance model.
The SOA Governance to COBIT mapping was reviewed. It will be
published as part of an example governance mapping in conjunction with
the framework.
A draft list of SOA Governance principles was developed. Listing of
KPIs was left as a future work item.
The processes involved in the creation, implementation, and operation
of a Service-Oriented Architecture were discussed, and points at which
Governance operations impact upon them were identified.
Outputs
The meeting resulted in an implementation plan to produce first a
generic SOA Governance model, then an SOA Governance framework, and
finally an example showing the model and framework used with COBIT, ITI,
and TOGAF.
Next Steps
The next step is to develop the generic SOA Governance model, which
will comprise processes, organizational structures, roles and
responsibilities, principles, KPIs, and artefacts.
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