Project Name

SOA Governance

Project Status

Approved by the SOA Working Group

Contribution to the Mission

The SOA Working Group contributes to the Open Group mission of Boundaryless Information Flow, by developing and fostering common understanding of SOA in order to facilitate alignment between the business and information technology communities. The SOA Governance project will provide part of that contribution in the following specific ways. It will:

• Develop a common definition of SOA Governance, including distinguishing between overall IT Governance and SOA Governance
• Define reusable processes and structures for SOA Governance
• Describe the relationship between IT to business governance and technical IT governance
• Define a SOA Governance Reference Model

Better understanding of governance around SOA will facilitate SOA adoption.

The project will deliver typical TOGAF architecture artifacts such as:

• Business scenarios

• What overall processes do we expect to include in SOA Governance
• More detailed scenarios including business services, actors and possible organizational views, for example:

• Service Oriented Architecture Management (the architecture itself)
• Business Process Management
• Information Management
• Solution (composite application) Management
• Service Portfolio Management
• Service Value Management
• Service Management
• Service Delivery Management
• Service Design, Implementation, Deployment, De-commission Management
• Service Assets Management

• A conceptual model of concepts used within SOA governance
• An information model for SOA Governance
• A description of a business-IT governance in an SOA environment (View)
• A description of technical IT governance in an SOA environment (View)

• - An SOA Governance reference model, including

• IS functions needed and their interaction.
• Application system - IS function mappings
• Application system interactions

• Standards for SOA Governance tool interoperability

Relevant work includes;

• TOGAF
• The SOA Working Group SOA Definition
• Available SOA Governance inputs from Open Group members and other relevant, publicly available material such as the OASIS SOA Reference Mode
• ITIL and COBIT materials, as appropriate for them to be used
• SOA Reference Architectures

Working Procedures

The project will primarily work using conference calls, documents posted to the SOA WG Plato site and meetings at appropriate times and venues.

The work of the project will follow the principles of the TOGAF standard + SOA principles, e.g. agility, reuse. (This could be a good way to validate SOA architecture principles from some other SOA work stream).

The project will Collaborate and align with other relevant work both within and outside the SOA Working Group when appropriate:

• Relation of SOA to EA (TOGAF) for work stream process
• SOA Ontology for Information Concepts
• SOA Reference Model for concepts and IS Architecture
• SOA Maturity for governance processes
• SOA Definition for SOA principle
• SOA KPI’s for SOA monitoring
• OASIS, OMG and other organizations

Project Leaders

Mats Gejnevall, Capgemini

Tony Carrato, IBM

Project Team

The team is composed of the members of the soa-governance mail list.

Project Plan

The project will include the following activities:

• Project formation by End of August , 2006
• Regular teleconferences starting September 200
• Initial face to face meeting, week of October 23, 2006 at the Lisbon Architecture Practitioners Conference

Iteration 2 – Digging into the details (8 - 12 weeks)

Same as iteration 2 but for lower-priority processes