Does this fuzziness make it risky to draw any conclusions? We can say that companies think goverance maturity is important to SOA but we have no idea how they defined governance, maturity...or SOA.
Without the definitions, how are companies, architects, etc. that are coming up to speed supposed to proceed? Or is it the case in this context that the specifics are unimportant? E.g. how you do governance specifically isn't as important as simply doing *something* along those lines. -Rob --- In service-orientated- [EMAIL PROTECTED], "mikomatsumura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > =) survey research is pretty inexact. We offered respondents those > categories to rate themselves and didnt really bother to explain to > them how those words were defined. So it's pretty subjective. > > Basically we didnt actually measure their governance or maturity, we > asked them to rate it by "gut feel" more or less... > > --- In [email protected], "Rob Eamon" > <reamon@> wrote: > > > > Miko: > > > > For the purposes of the survey, how were governance and maturity > > defined? > > > > -Rob > > > > --- In service-orientated- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], "mikomatsumura" <mikomatsumura@> > > wrote: > > > > > > This is very important research. I hope this will highlight the need > > > for better approaches to SOA Adoption rather than slow down the > > > adoption of SOA as businesses become more "cautious". > > > > > > With respect to approaches, we recently conducted a survey of 176 > > > customers and prospects of Software AG webMethods and found the > > > following. Please be aware of the selection bias factor as our > > > sample was drawn from our own customer and prospect population. > > > Still, I believe the data is interesting. > > > > > > 91% of respondents stated that Governance was either Critical (54%) > > > or Moderate (37%)in importance for SOA Strategy. > > > > > > yet only > > > > > > 7% of respondents said their approach to governance was "Mature". > > > 65% said their current approach to governance was either non- > > > existent (26%) or Insufficient (39%). > > > > > > Once again, of course subject to sample bias but interesting to > > > consider. I can cite much research (some from Burton Group) stating > > > that governance is important for SOA Success. > > > > > >
