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SOA Governance

By : Todd Biske
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SOA Governance

By: Todd Biske

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, the examples demonstrated how a lack of clearly defined goals can impact the SOA effort. We also saw the challenges that SOA introduces into an organization that is quite used to self-contained projects without outside dependencies. They ranged from redundant services because of lack of awareness, to controversy over whose project would be responsible for a shared service, and finally to a lack of resources available to make updates to the service because the original project that built it had been completed, with the team reallocated to other efforts.

In an effort to change the behavior within projects, Advasco formed a Center of Excellence. The first task they took on was to provide definition to the SOA effort and establish concrete goals. Second, they embarked on an education effort to ensure that the development staff was aware of the desired behavior and the new policies associated with SOA. When they failed to see significant progress, the team formalized an...