A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governanceService-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise expertly covers the business, organizational, process, compliance, security, and technology facets of SOA and IT governance. This book provides a comprehensive enterprise view of governance from a strategic and tactical perspective, as well as modeling and planning tools to help evolve a company's ongoing governance requirements. Written by Eric Marks and the industry's leading SOA authorities, this essential book provides a refreshing business-driven perspective to SOA and IT governance.

ERIC A. MARKS is President and CEO of AgilePath Corporation, a leading vendor-independent Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) management-consulting firm. He is a software and technology veteran with twenty-one years of experience with firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cambridge Technology Partners, Novell, Electronic Data Systems, StreamServe, Ontos, and Square D/Schneider Electric. Mr. Marks is the author of two industry-recognized SOA books including Service-Oriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology and Executive's Guide to Web Services. Mr. Marks also wrote Business Darwinism: Evolve or Dissolve, and edited and contributed to Manufacturing Leadership through the Extended Enterprise. Mr. Marks serves on the Advisory Board for Syracuse University's top-ranked School of Information Studies, as well as being an Adjunct Professor. Mr. Marks also serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Kauffman Campus-Community Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
The SOA Governance Imperative	p. 1
The Inevitable SOA Trend	p. 1
Introduction to Governance	p. 5
Introduction to Enterprise SOA Governance	p. 6
Governance and Resource Management and Allocation	p. 8
Do Not Confuse Governance with Management	p. 10
Governance Is About Results and Appropriate Use of Resources	p. 11
Information Technology Governance	p. 11
IT Process Frameworks: ITIL, COBIT, CMMI, and Others	p. 12
IT Governance Approaches	p. 13
Who Are the SOA Stakeholders?	p. 15
Addressing SOA Stakeholder Biases	p. 17
SOA Governance Impacts IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture	p. 18
SOA Governance Requirements Vary by SOA Maturity	p. 20
SOA Bill of Rights	p. 23
Pursue the "Right" SOA Strategy	p. 24
Apply SOA to the "right" Challenges	p. 25
Identify and Build the "Right" Services	p. 25
Build Your Services the "Right" Way (Design-Time Governance)	p. 26
Get Your SOA Tools Platform "Right"	p. 28
Create the "Right" Organizational, Cultural, and Behavioral Model	p. 29
Achieve the "Right" SOA Results	p. 30
Establish the "Right" SOA Governance Model and Policies	p. 31
Common SOA Governance Mistakes	p. 33
Right-Sized SOA Governance: How Much Governance Do We Need?	p. 37
Summary	p. 37
SOA Governance Reference Model	p. 39
Why an SOA Governance Reference Model?	p. 40
Elements of the SOA Governance Reference Model	p. 41
Decomposing the SOA Governance Reference Model	p. 44
SOA Environmental Dimensions	p. 55
Applying the SOA Governance Reference Model	p. 58
Summary	p. 62
Four Tiers of SOA Governance	p. 65
Expanded Four Tiers of Governance	p. 67
Tier 1: Enterprise/Strategic Governance Tier	p. 68
Tier 2: SOA Operating Model Governance Tier	p. 79
Tier 3: SOA and Services Development Lifecycle Tier	p. 92
Tier 4: SOA Governance Enabling Technology Tier	p. 99
Summary	p. 100
Organizing Your SOA Governance Toolkit	p. 103
SOA Governance Assessment Tools	p. 104
SOA Maturity Assessments	p. 104
Governance Model Design Tools	p. 121
Policy Model	p. 126
Governance and Policy Enforcement Model	p. 127
Governance Execution Model	p. 141
Summary	p. 146
SOA Governance Model Design Process	p. 147
Governance Model Design Prerequisites	p. 148
Governance Model Validation, Refinement, and Implementation Planning	p. 168
SOA Governance Model Design Framework Checklist	p. 171
Summary	p. 174
SOA Governance Goals, Principles, and Policies	p. 175
Overview of the Goals-Principles-Policy Cycle	p. 176
SOA Strategy and SOA Goals	p. 177
SOA Governance Goals	p. 178
Turning SOA Goals into SOA Principles	p. 180
Deriving SOA Governance Principles	p. 180
SOA Governance Policies	p. 183
Introduction to Policies	p. 183
What Policies Are Required?	p. 184
Suggested Policy Definition Process	p. 186
Decoupling Policies from Services	p. 188
Identifying Technical Policies	p. 189
Toward an Integrated Model of SOA Policies	p. 190
Policy Taxonomy and Vocabulary	p. 191
Policy Granularity	p. 192
Multi-Level or Multi-Tiered Policies	p. 194
Vertical and Horizontal Policy Enforcement	p. 195
Policy Enforcement Models: Manual, Technology-Assisted, and Automated	p. 195
Policy Categories Determine Policy Enforcement Mechanisms	p. 196
Governance Threads and Governance Process Orchestration	p. 197
Barriers to a Unified Policy Model	p. 201
Integrated Policy Enforcement Model	p. 201
Barriers to Integrated Policy Enforcement Models	p. 205
Policy Provisioning Model (and Process)	p. 206
SOA Goals, Principle, and Policy Management	p. 209
Transforming SOA Policies into Behavioral Norms	p. 210
Summary	p. 211
SOA Governance Organizational Models	p. 213
First Things First: Understand Your Current Organizational Structure	p. 214
Conway's Law and Enterprise SOA Governance	p. 214
Marks's Law? Organization Reflects Funding	p. 216
Organizational Analysis Steps	p. 216
Purpose of the SOA Governance Organization	p. 218
Governance Organization Patterns and Best Practices	p. 219
Other SOA Governance Board Considerations	p. 223
Specific Governance Organizational Models to Consider	p. 225
Federated Organizational Models	p. 231
SOA Governance for Federated IT Models	p. 232
Best Practice SOA Governance Organizational Roadmap	p. 236
SOA Governance Organizational Modeling Steps	p. 237
SOA Governance Organizational Roadmap	p. 238
SOA Governance Organizational Model Summary	p. 239
SOA Governance Organizational Model by SOA Adoption Phase	p. 239
Summary	p. 246
SOA and Services Lifecycle Governance	p. 247
Lifecycle Governance Matrix	p. 247
Lifecycle Governance Tools and Platforms	p. 254
Production versus Consumption Perspective	p. 255
Service Reusability	p. 256
Governance Gaps in a Typical Enterprise	p. 260
Service Lifecycle Governance Best Practices	p. 263
Summary	p. 274
SOA Governance Enabling Technology and Tools	p. 275
Policy Management Model (PMM)	p. 275
Policy Enforcement Model (PEM)	p. 276
Policy Provisioning Model (PPM)	p. 277
Introduction to the Governance Technical Reference Model	p. 281
Technology and Standards of SOA Governance and Policies	p. 283
Design Time	p. 284
QA and Testing	p. 287
Publishing and Discovery	p. 289
Run Time	p. 296
Battle for Control of SOA Technology Governance	p. 302
Summary	p. 303
SOA Governance and Beyond	p. 305
Governance as a Strategic Competency	p. 307
Governance Beyond Policies and Edicts	p. 307
Evolving Governance: Policies to Norms to Culture	p. 308
Community Models for Governance: Open source as a Guide	p. 309
Governance Open Source Style	p. 310
Governance of the Internet: The Mac Daddy of Communities	p. 311
Integrating Governance Paradigms	p. 312
Governance Performance Management: A Necessary Discipline	p. 313
Creation of an Enterprise Governance Executive	p. 314
Separation of Enterprise and IT Governance from the PMO	p. 315
Plan for the Structural Accordion: Centralized to Decentralized to Centralized Again	p. 315
Governance Going Forward: The Way Ahead	p. 316
Develop a Unified Model of Policies	p. 317
Integrated Policy Enforcement Models	p. 317
Development of Governance Collaboration Tools	p. 318
"That Governance Is Best that Governs Best with Least"	p. 319
Summary	p. 322
Index	p. 325
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