InfoQ Homepage Governance Content on InfoQ
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SOA Governance: Crucial Necessity or Waste of Time?
In this article, Gernot Starke introduces the concepts behind SOA Governance, how it relates to overall Corporate Governance and IT Governance, and how it should be applied both at design-time and at runtime. Gernot covers the key aspects that SOA Governance needs to address and explains the role governance tools.
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Interview: IBM Architect Bertrand Portier on joining MDD and SOA
In the wake of the latest product announcement from IBM, InfoQ talked to Bertrand Portier about a RedBook that presents a Model-Driven-Development approach to service construction. The concepts are general enough to be applied to product stacks other than IBM.
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Establishing a Service Governance Organization
Service Governance is an essential aspect of a successful Service Oriented Architecture. Its establishment has to be planned and tested out early in the initial phases of a SOA initiative. In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray shows what it takes to create such a structure efficiently.
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SOA Governance - Long-Term SOA Implementation and Management
In this article, Wolfgang Keller explores the challenges in SOA adoption and discusses the commonalities and differences of SOA governance to overall IT governance. He discusses why SOA initiatives frequently get bogged down, and how the anchoring of SOA in an IT governance can help make SOA a success.
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Roles in SOA Governance
To make sure SOA succeeds, many vendors, analysts, consultants and practitioners agree that Governance is a critical ingredient for a successful SOA initiative. This article explores a potential set of roles for successful SOA Governance, the roles of "SOA Domain Architect", "SOA Platform Architect", "Service Designer", "Business Service Owner", and "Technical Service Owner".
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Service Oriented Architecture Governance: The Basics
In this article, MomentumSI's Ed Vazquez explains the basics of SOA governance, with an explicit focus on the need for a holistic SOA governance model, shared governance principles and the difference between (and the need for both) tactical and strategic efforts.