We have had a few discussions on SOA Governance, so you might be interested to learn what tack IBM is taking:
<<Specific deliverables of the new IGS offerings include methodologies for establishing an SOA center of excellence, designed to foster best practices and architectural standards, plus a governance model that helps enforce them on new SOA development projects. The governance model establishes a lifecycle for creating, managing, and retiring or repurposing services. It defines a life cycle for service development that leverages the services-oriented modeling architecture (SOMA) that IBM rolled out last year. It also formalizes decision paths, outlining who is responsible for making and reviewing which decision impacting SOA rollouts, while setting checkpoints to track business alignment and effectiveness of new and existing services across different stages of the life cycle. IGS is offering templates for establishing these processes and procedures. IGS is also offering a template for setting up an SOA Center of Excellence that includes representatives of IT, the business, plus SOA architects. Its responsibility is the usual grab bag of defining reference architectures, publishing patterns and best practices, conducting architectural reviews, and delivering architectural mentoring. The roadmap assumes that these excellence centers would be set up incrementally rather than overnight, based on the organization's experience and maturity in SOA rollout. Although similar in name only, IGS's SOA maturity model has nothing to do with a rival proposal last week from Sonic, AmberPoint, Systinet, and Bearing Point.>> You can read the details at: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BA32679F-A99B-4881- A7E8-814489B9D723 Will the industry follow BigBlue's direction?? Gervas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/NhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
