The book "SOA Governance achieving and sustaining business and it agility" by Willim Brown, Robert Laird, Clive Gee and Tilak Mitra. IBM press Is deserve the time to read too. It has nothing to say about IBM products at all. It just about the process. All the best
Ashraf Galal Gervas Douglas wrote: > > *You can read the following article in full at: > > http://www.infoq.com/articles/poulin-wonderland-soa-governance > > Gervas* > > <<One man, Harry W., once said "/Alice// does not fall down the hole. > She sees the white //rabbit, is intrigued, and willingly follows him > down the deep rabbit hole/." Yes, the secret of Wonderland is about > the meaning of the words: Harry has insisted that Alice ‘/willingly > follow[s]’/ into the Rabbit Hole while Alice has certainly “/found > herself falling down > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alice-Wonderland-Pop-up-Lewis-Carroll/dp/0689837593/ref=sr_l_l?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252961769&sr=8-l>/”. > > The same happens with SOA Governance – like in the Rabbit Hole, one > thinks about governance but talks about management and another one > does the exact opposite... > > We used to think that management includes governance. This is correct > understanding: Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries as well as > English Synonym Dictionary <http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/dico/en/search> > include 'governance' as a remote synonym to 'management'. However, the > opposite is not true -governance is not management. Governance is > about policies and controlling riles while management is about policy > execution and controls. Management needs governance because without > governance it does not know what and how to run, execute or preserve. > > I am aware of at least 3 books written about SOA Governance and at > least 8 articles published only in infoQ > <http://www.infoq.com/governance> on this topic in the last two years. > Nonetheless, I have found that in absolute majority of publications > about SOA Governance it is directly associated with policy enforcement > or with a straightforward management. To date, only OASIS SOA > Reference Architecture (RA), Public Review Draft 1 > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/soa-ra-pr-01.pdf> > recognises the effect of the 'rabbit hole' and clearly separates > governance of service-oriented environment from its management > <http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/poulin-governance>.>> > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
