I completely agree on the goal, and it is indeed a form of governance its just that my experience has been that in a large programme the term governance tends to mean heavy and retarding progress where as the goal is the managed transition to a new state, its there that I tend to use "business change" or transformation as the words.
This could also be because clients I work with tend to expect that for the prices they are paying that we can "do" governance, so that is an assumed part of the package. Steve 2008/10/27 Todd Biske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, governance is another overloaded term that many organizations/people > will have pre-conceived notions as soon they hear the term. Finding the > right angle to take on the problem to get your foot in the door can be the > most difficult thing. > My take on it is that there has to be a reason for adopting SOA, something > that's not being done today or being done poorly. To get there, something > normally needs to change. Simply making a statement of "fix this" probably > won't cut it, or at best, will provide a one-time fix, but then the > organization reverts back to past behavior. We need something to actually > guide us through that change and ensure that it is a transition to the > desired state, rather than a band-aid. I've chosen to focus on governance > to guide that change. If someone doesn't like term, I would fall back to > the discussion of the current failings and get agreement that something > needs to change and get agreement on the action plan for making that change, > regardless of what we choose to call it. > > -tb > Todd Biske > http://www.biske.com/blog/ > Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A million management consultants scream out. > > I'm 100% with the aim here, but one challenge around calling business > change "governance" is that in my experience this tends to be a > finance/IT type term that doesn't always produce positive behaviours > (i.e. the Sales and Marketing folks tend to hate it and the Production > guys really understand it, but in a completely different way to what > you want). > > I've tended to split this governance from the policy governance and > just called the former the "business change stream" its right to say > its a form of governance but I'm not sure telling everyone that helps. > > Steve > > 2008/10/24 Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Here is an extract from an article in InfoQ: >> >> <<Many people have written that the hardest thing about a successful >> adoption of SOA is not the technology, but rather, the culture change. >> Whether it's trying to encourage a culture of sharing that goes >> against the grain of developers that prefer complete control over >> their solutions, trying to change the way projects are proposed and >> funding to ensure strategic service creation, or trying to properly >> manage the new dependencies that are created at run-time, these >> changes require more than just technology. What is the key to ensuring >> that the culture change does happen? It is in managing the process of >> behavioral change, which is governance.>> >> >> You can read the whole article at: >> >> http://www.infoq.com/articles/implementing-soa-governance >> >> Gervas >> >> > >
