SOA is continuing to gain widespread adoption and find success beyond pilot
and project implementations, according to recent surveys. There is a steady
increase in organizations moving to enterprise-wide SOA deployments. Those
that have found success maturing to large-scale SOA have one thing in common:
they all have effective governance practices to keep SOA on track with the
business.
But what is SOA governance? Every organization seems to have its own
definition, and one thing SOA governance is not is a discipline separate from
existing IT and enterprise architecture governance. It's an extension of
existing governance disciplines that adds additional elements or
considerations that are specific to a SOA environment. If an organization has
good governance practices in place already, its SOA governance will follow
suit. However, the converse is true as well. If a... (more)