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Assiduously track your progress through clear metrics that prove SOA
value and business value.
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Use Big Hairy Audacious Value (BHAV) as the gauge of SOA success.
Be bold yet realistic with your SOA goals. Do not settle for reuse as the
end state and ultimate objective of your initiative. There is much more
enterprise value to be realized. You just have to plan for it.
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Stay the course and work through difficult challenges. Anything worth-
while takes sustained effort. SOA takes work, and SOA is worthwhile.
ESTABLISH THE ‘‘RIGHT’’ SOA GOVERNANCE MODEL
AND POLICIES
SOA governance is essential for managing the decisions and policies of your
SOA. You must get your SOA governance model right to achieve your SOA
goals, period. SOA governance establishes alignment of your SOA strategy
to your business, as well as defining the enterprise architecture policies and
interoperability standards for the services in your SOA. SOA governance is
a must! SOA governance is more than the technical policies and design
standards for building reusable interoperable services. SOA governance also
establishes the decision framework for funding SOA efforts and initiatives,
for assigning ownership of various classes of services, as well as ensuring
appropriate development lifecycle processes support SOA. Below are a few
SOA governance considerations to get your governance model right:
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SOA governance is more than technology and tools. Many vendors are
on the SOA governance bandwagon with service registries, repositories,
distributed enforcement tools, and more. However, before you can suc-
cessfully implement the tools, you must establish the SOA processes,
policies, and enforcement mechanisms that support and enable SOA
SOA GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS
Achievement of the ‘‘right’’ SOA results brings us back full circle to
our SOA strategy, goals and objectives. SOA governance, as we have
maintained, must be tightly aligned with the SOA strategy and explic-
itly linked to the SOA goals. The right results will follow from SOA
governance, which again ensures we are doing the right SOA things
the right SOA way for our SOA stakeholders.
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