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IT Governance. Transparency and oversight for IT funding, actual IT
spending, and input into key IT decisions.
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Architecture Governance. Oversight and conformance to the enterprise
architecture (EA) standards and policies of the organization, as well as
input into key enterprise architecture (EA) decisions.
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SOA Governance. Definition, execution, and oversight of an SOA busi-
ness and technology strategy, along with ensuring technical oversight,
interoperability, and enforcement of technical policies for the architec-
ture and services that comprise the SOA.
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Services/Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Governance. Gover-
nance of services from concept to requirements, design, construction,
quality assurance and testing, publishing/registration, consumption,
composition, orchestration, provisioning, management, maintenance,
deprecation, and retirement. Lifecycle governance often is broken into
design-time governance and runtime governance, separated by quality
assurance and testing, service registration and publishing.
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Program Governance. Oversight of major programs, projects, and ini-
tiatives from a cost, schedule, and performance perspective, often per-
formed by a program management office (PMO) process.
We could add data governance, portfolio management, and many other
dimensions into this list. What should become clear is that ‘‘governance’’
means slightly different things for each of these areas. While they all generi-
cally still mean ‘‘doing the right things the right way for the stakeholders,’’
the right things, right ways and stakeholders are all different for these gov-
ernance focal points.
However, when does the transition from ‘‘management’’ to ‘‘gover-
nance’’ occur, and for what kinds of assets or decisions? Governance is not
the same as management, yet they are intrinsically related to one another as
we will see below.
DO NOT CONFUSE GOVERNANCE WITH MANAGEMENT
Our definition of governance is critical to bear in mind as you begin devel-
oping your SOA governance model. Governance is often confused with
management. In one sense, both are management activities. Governance
provides management and oversight for critical activities or decisions where
stakeholder representation is an imperative. Management is about execu-
tion of all business or organizational activities once the decision is made.
Management activities usually do not require external stakeholder involve-
ment or representation, whereas governance activities nearly always have
10 THE SOA GOVERNANCE IMPERATIVE