SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility

Address the #1 Success Factor in SOA Implementations: Effective, Business-Driven Governance

Inadequate governance might be the most widespread root cause of SOA failure. In SOA Governance, a team of IBM’s leading SOA governance experts share hard-won best practices for governing IT in any service-oriented environment.

The authors begin by introducing a comprehensive SOA governance model that has worked in the field. They define what must be governed, identify key stakeholders, and review the relationship of SOA governance to existing governance bodies as well as governance frameworks like COBIT. Next, they walk you through SOA governance assessment and planning, identifying and fixing gaps, setting goals and objectives, and establishing workable roadmaps and governance deliverables. Finally, the authors detail the build-out of the SOA governance model with a case study.

The authors illuminate the unique issues associated with applying IT governance to a services model, including the challenges of compliance auditing when service behavior is inherently unpredictable. They also show why services governance requires a more organizational, business-centric focus than “conventional” IT governance.

Coverage includes

• Understanding the problems SOA governance needs to solve
• Establishing and governing service production lines that automate SOA development activities
• Identifying reusable elements of your existing IT governance model and prioritizing improvements 
• Establishing SOA authority chains, roles, responsibilities, policies, standards, mechanisms, procedures, and metrics
• Implementing service versioning and granularity
• Refining SOA governance frameworks to maintain their vitality as business and IT strategies change

Introduction: A Services Approach  

Chapter 1: Introduction to Governance   

Chapter 2: SOA Governance Assessment and Planning

Chapter 3: Building the Service Factory  

Chapter 4: Governing the Service Factory    

Chapter 5: Implementing the SOA Governance Model   

Chapter 6: Managing the Service Lifecycle    

Chapter 7: Governance Vitality     

Chapter 8: SOA Governance Case Study    

Appendix A: Glossary    

Appendix B: References    

Index  

解決SOA實施中的首要成功因素：有效的業務驅動治理

不充分的治理可能是SOA失敗最普遍的根本原因。在《SOA治理》一書中，IBM領先的SOA治理專家團隊分享了在任何面向服務的環境中治理IT的寶貴經驗。

作者首先介紹了一個在實踐中有效的SOA治理模型。他們定義了必須受到治理的範疇，確定了關鍵利益相關者，並回顧了SOA治理與現有治理機構以及COBIT等治理框架的關係。接下來，他們引導讀者進行SOA治理評估和規劃，確定並修補缺口，設定目標和目的，建立可行的路線圖和治理成果。最後，作者通過一個案例研究詳細介紹了SOA治理模型的構建。

作者闡明了將IT治理應用於服務模型所面臨的獨特問題，包括服務行為本質上是不可預測的情況下的合規審計挑戰。他們還展示了為什麼服務治理需要更多組織和業務中心的關注，而不是“傳統”的IT治理。

內容包括：
- 理解SOA治理需要解決的問題
- 建立和管理自動化SOA開發活動的服務生產線
- 確定現有IT治理模型中可重用的元素並優先改進
- 建立SOA授權鏈、角色、責任、政策、標準、機制、程序和指標
- 實施服務版本控制和細粒度
- 完善SOA治理框架，以保持其在業務和IT策略變化時的活力

《導言》：服務方法
《第1章》：治理簡介
《第2章》：SOA治理評估和規劃
《第3章》：建立服務工廠
《第4章》：管理服務工廠
《第5章》：實施SOA治理模型
《第6章》：管理服務生命周期
《第7章》：治理活力
《第8章》：SOA治理案例研究
《附錄A》：詞彙表
《附錄B》：參考文獻
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