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The hardest thing about a successful adoption of SOA is not the technology, but rather, the culture change. In this article, Todd Biske offers his perspective on using Governance to drive this culture change. The article covers the establishment of policies, defines the role of a CoE and look at techniques to help with the enforcement of these policies.
In the Wall Street Journal, Sam Culbert argues that annual performance and pay reviews are at best dysfunctional. He sees their primary purpose as "intimidation aimed at preserving the boss's authority and power advantage". Jeff Sutherland, Mary Poppendieck, ... offer alterantives
Does SOA Governance means to you "visions of endless meetings and committee reviews"? Steve Stefanovich argues that "You might already practice governance and don’t even know it" and that "a reorientation and formalization of many of the things good software architects have been doing all along" might help your SOA initiative.
MuleSource, a provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, announced the general availability of Mule 2.1 Enterprise and Mule Galaxy 1.5.
Alex Maclinovsky explains why his vision of Governance differs from those prevailing in the industry. Based on his precise understanding of what a SOA platform should do, he defines a unified view of SOA Governance which he claims "has the potential to take the imperfect SOA platforms and implementations ... and transform them into true Service Oriented Architectures..."
SOA architect Michael Poulin explains the necessity for SOA governance to ensure an SOA initiative's success, and explains the role the OASIS SOA Reference Model and the accompanying SOA Reference Architecture assign to SOA Governance. Michael observes SOA governance specifics from the enterprise perspective and illustrates them with several examples of SOA Governance policies.
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks to Stefan Tilkov about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.
In this presentation, which was recorded at JAOO, Software AG's Ivo Totev introduces his views on SOA and SOA Governance. Topics covered include how SOA governance can be defined, why governance is needed, and what areas it can be decomposed into. Totev also describes a SOA registry/repository solution, which in Totev's opinion is something that should be introduced in the earliest stages.
Video of SOA Foundations course captured at webMethods SOA Master Class in San Francisco. Speaker Miko Matsumura covers foundational definitions and patterns for SOA.
