《ws-soa-governance-pdf》.pdf

SOA governance: Examples of service life cycle management processes Skill Level: Intermediate Prabhakar Mynampati (pmynampa@) Advisory Architect IBM 06 Nov 2008 You need an appropriate governance process model in place to effectively realize the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development life-cycle activities. This article describes SOA governance processes based on scenarios that are adopted in a typical enterprise during the SOA development life cycle. Take a close look at important life-cycle activities, such as service identification, service creation and reuse, service testing, service versioning and change management, service-level management (quality of service), and service security. Learn about the challenges that your organization might face in a typical SOA development life cycle and how to address these challenges by implementing governance subprocesses and by delegating certain roles and responsibilities to the respective layers of a governance body for each scenario. What is SOA governance? SOA governance is the intersection of business and IT governance focused on the life cycle of services to ensure the business value of SOA. Its the effective management of this life cycle that is the key goal to SOA governance. Figure 1. The definition of SOA governance SOA governance: Examples of service life cycle management processes © Copyright IBM Corporation 1994, 2007. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 17 developerWorks® /developerWorks IBMs approach: SOA Governance and Management Method IBMs approach to governance includes two distinct aspects for success: definition and enforcement. The SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM) is the end-to-end approach to definition t