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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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