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Enhance productivity with enablement tools
The following software and services have been carefully selected from the leading-edge IBM software and services portfolio to support each stage of the IBM SOA Governance lifecycle.
- Plan - establish the governance need
- Define - design the governance approach
- Enable - put the governance model into action
- Measure - monitor and manage the governance processes
End-to-end success focuses on the people
Guidance to develop your organization's unique lifecycle and resulting SOA Governance framework:
- IBM SOA Governance and Management Method
- IBM Services (US): available across the lifecycle
- IBM Business Enablement Services for SOA (US)
- IBM SOA Center of Excellence to help facilitate SOA implementation and adoption
- SOA Assessment Services (US)
to determine:
- Current capabilities and gaps in developing your SOA strategy
- Effectiveness of your SOA strategy
- IBM Organizational Design Services to help refine your organizational model
- IBM Design Services for SOA (US)
- Balance scorecard methodology
- Services available from IBM Business Partners
Plan - establish the governance need
Activities for plan phase:
- Establish the governance need
- Document and validate business strategy for SOA and IT
- Assess current IT and SOA capabilities
- Define/refine SOA vision and strategy
- Review current governance capabilities and arrangements
- Layout governance plan
Enablement tools:
Most of the activities in this phase are people-centric and involve extensive collaboration. Along with the methodology and services listed above, the required collaboration can be simplified with tools such as instant messaging, email, wiki, dashboards, calendaring, and role-based portals.
Define - design the governance approach
Activities for define phase:
- Define the governance approach
- Define/modify governance processes
- Design policies and enforcement mechanisms
- Identify success factors, metrics
- Identify owners and funding model
- Charter/refine SOA Center of Excellence
- Design governance IT infrastructure
Enablement tools:
Enable - put the governance model into action
Activities associated with enable phase:
- Deploy the governance model incrementally
- Deploy governance mechanisms
- Deploy governance IT infrastructure
- Educate and deploy on expected behaviors and practices
- Deploy policies
Enablement tools:
Measure - monitor and manage the governance process
Activities associated with measure phase:
- Monitor and manage the governance processes
- Monitor compliance with policies
- Monitor compliance with governance arrangements
- Monitor IT effectiveness metrics
Enablement tools:
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