One important aspect of a successful SOA effort is to ensure that SOA is governed. The importance of SOA governance is not fully recognized very often until the issues/problems are surfaced. In brief, SOA governance is about people, processes and technology.
People: SOA aligns the business and IT to work together more flexibly and adaptively. As a result, any SOA project will involve many different parts of an organization, from business domains to IT groups. The side effort of the involvement of this scale is the difficulties resulting in coordination and cooperation. To make SOA a success, organization structure must be shaped to be an enabler. Furthermore, roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined to reduce the risks associated with ambiguity of who is doing what.
Processes: There are two sides of a coin in terms of processes. On one side, a few major processes as an important part of SOA governance framework must be established. For example, SOA governance must have checkpoint process in place to guard SOA activities. On the other side, a set of processes will be followed when services are modeled, assembled, implemented, and deployed. These processes should be governed by governance processes. They are called governed processes.
Technology: Technology and tools can help making governance life easier. For example, registry can facilitate the discovering and publishing services. Repository can store many important metadata associated with services. In addition, tools can be very critical to the success of the implementation of SOA governance.
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