SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility

The authors illuminate the unique issues associated with applying IT governance to a services model, including the challenges of compliance auditing when service behavior is inherently unpredictable. They also show why services governance requires a more organizational, business-centric focus than “conventional” IT governance.

Coverage includes

• Understanding the problems SOA governance needs to solve
• Establishing and governing service production lines that automate SOA development activities
• Identifying reusable elements of your existing IT governance model and prioritizing improvements 
• Establishing SOA authority chains, roles, responsibilities, policies, standards, mechanisms, procedures, and metrics
• Implementing service versioning and granularity
• Refining SOA governance frameworks to maintain their vitality as business and IT strategies change