<<I have always held that SOA governance is premature yet. While we are
struggling to just get SOA adoption in the right spirit, governance is
the least of our problems. If we cannot identify a mechanism to first
re-engineer "service orientation" into IT solutions and have the IT
teams in an organization be "SOA aware" ground up and not just deliver
the POCs that the CIO or CTO demands, where is the need for operational
processes and governance? In this context I found this article
<http://web2.sys-con.com/node/892440> that professes a SOA governance
approach for SMEs to be quite out of touch with reality.
While the thoughts proposed, such as agile approach to governance and
the business users defining the need and IT groups quickly implementing
the same, a managed governance process is not necessarily bad. It's just
that we are dealing with more fundamental issues right now. Issues that
are preventing
<http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/2009/01/soa-wanted-dead-or-alive.html>
the widely touted gains of SOA. That led to the drastic predictions of
SOAs death
<http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/01/soa-is-dead-long-live-services.html>!
In the present stage of SOA adoption, where we have just crossed the
hype-curve's chasm
<http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/2009/03/soa-next-just-a-new-skin-for-the-same-problems.html>,
and are just now pondering over the serious practical use cases with a
full grip on reality (of issues with SOA adoption), all that is
immediately needed is anything but SOA Governance. Good tools and
utilities to help quickly create services, test services, deploy and
manage the same in production. The need for complete SOA lifecycle
governance is still a few years away. At least, and surely not for SMEs,
their SOA problems will be much more fundamental. SOA Management
<http://www.progress.com/soa-portfolio/soa-management/index.ssp> is what
they will need now.>>
You can read this blog at:
http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/ramesh-loganathan/index.html
Gervas
