SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management

SOA Governance is not a single activity, but a set of components that are all important to consider in governing an SOA.

SOA governance includes a number of key components:

• Organizational change. Creating the culture and organization to support moving to SOA.
• Service lifecycle management. Modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing the service.
• Enforcement. Making sure the service policies are being followed.
• Quality. Creating an end-to-end process for developing and deploying high quality services.
• Policy. Establishing and managing the rules associated with services.
• Security. Who is allowed to own, access, and update services.

Service lifecycle management is essential in the realization of SOA governance:

• Model. Create, document, and prioritize business requirements.
• Assemble. Define, approve, and monitor.
• Deploy. Evaluate and execute functional and performance test cases.
• Manage. Monitor and report on services.