Groan. Whether intended or not, this article implies the "SOA
Governance is a tool you buy" thinking that vendors push. Everyone has
governance processes, and everyone has SOA management processes, it's
just a question of how effective they are in contributing to (or
inhibiting) IT's ability to deliver and operate business solutions. If
you are deficient in your SOA management processes and those
deficiencies can be traced to technology gaps, go talk to a SOA
management vendor. If your governance processes are inefficient and
can be improved through technology, go talk to a registry/repository
vendor. If they both are deficient and you have limited dollars, do
the math and figure out which will give your company the most bang for
the buck. That decision is company specific, though.
-tb
Todd Biske
http://www.biske.com/blog/
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Gervas Douglas <[email protected]>
wrote:
<<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 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 the widely touted gains
of SOA. That led to the drastic predictions of SOAs death!
In the present stage of SOA adoption, where we have just crossed the
hype-curve's chasm, 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 is what they will need now.>>
You can read this blog at:
http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/ramesh-loganathan/index.html
Gervas
