Course Outline

What is SOA Governance?

  • Compliance with standards or laws for government
  • Change management
  • Ensuring the quality of services
  • Managing the portfolio of services
  • Managing the service lifecycle
  • Using policies to restrict behavior
  • Monitoring performance of services

The SOA Governance Issue

  • Governance appearing as SOA initiatives for government
  • A dynamic environment for services to interact
  • Encouraging the reuse of services
  • Controlling how services interact with each other
  • The long-term ROI and manageability for government operations

Governance Questions

  • Where do they start on the governance ladder?
  • Governance as a core feature of any SOA initiative for government
  • Establishing a timeline
  • Personnel training and operational procedures
  • Putting skills and procedures in place well ahead of implementation

SOA Governance Stages

  • First: realization that governance is needed for government
  • Second: governance improving business execution for government
  • Third: mixing technology and changes in behavior
  • Fourth: technology selection and implementation for government

Service Management

  • Design-time perspective
  • Run-time perspective
  • Repository of services for reuse
  • Services contained in heterogeneous platforms
  • Service virtualization for run-time management of services

Critical Governance Components

  • Service registry service and an asset repository
  • Creating a "SOA Center of Excellence" for government
  • Focusing on establishing SOA organizational guidelines
  • The organizational maturity
  • Agreed governance policies

SOA Governance Tools

  • Real-time monitoring of events
  • Failures in a BSM framework
  • Service-level instrumentation
  • Hooking into operational management systems
  • Virtualization as an enabler to separate governance/service logic
  • Service virtualization managed by operational staff for government

Achieving Governance

  • Measuring the goals for governance for government
  • The internal audit for government operations
  • Automating the audit process for government

Developing Core SOA Governance

  • Why the SOA technology stack has grown complex for government
  • Mixing between COTS and in-house solutions for government
  • Justifying external consultants to help out for government projects
  • Figuring out which business we are really in for government operations

Roles and Responsibilities Involved in SOA Governance

  • Establishing a SOA Center of Excellence for government
  • Enterprise-wide planning and assistance in execution for government initiatives
  • The roles of the SOA architect/governance architect for government
  • Solving potential conflicting interests within government operations
  • Ensuring that governance guidelines are followed for government

Barriers to SOA Governance

  • Not realizing the need for governance for government
  • Lack of governance technologies for government use
  • Lack of service virtualizations for government operations

State of Good Governance

  • Interaction with external parties for government
  • Managing business rules and BRE management for government
  • Regulations for good governance in government operations
  • The agreements repository for government
  • Proactively embedding governance in the business for government
  • Governance by action rather than by statement for government
  • SLA monitoring to establish premium prices for government services

Critical Success Factors

  • Start thinking about governance early in the process for government
  • View governance as a moving target for government initiatives
  • Manage policies as entities with their own lifecycles for government
  • Choose a technology platform for government use
  • The platform should address immediate governance needs for government
  • Future support as SOA infrastructure scales for government operations
  • Enforce service level agreements for government services

Service Virtualization

  • External configuration of encryption and routing for government
  • Authentication and schema validation for government
  • Transferring control from programmers to operational staff for government operations
  • Alleviating many of the SOA core pains for government
  • Avoiding services with internal policies for government
  • Technology and deployment neutral services for government use

The 'Dark Path' in SOA

  • What if the service produces non-compliant data for government?
  • Logging, tracking, and auditing for government operations
  • Halting erroneous operations as they occur for government services
  • Involving corrective business processes for government initiatives

Final Thoughts and Conclusions

  • Greatest challenges with SOA for government
  • Critical aspects of SOA governance for government operations
  • Service reuse as a key benefit of SOA for government
  • The governance of reuse for government services
  • Visibility, risk, and control for government operations

Requirements

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Awareness for Government

Understanding SOA and its implications is crucial for government agencies to enhance interoperability, efficiency, and service delivery. This training module provides a comprehensive overview of SOA principles and practices tailored specifically for government professionals. Participants will gain insights into how SOA can streamline operations, improve data sharing, and support mission-critical applications within the public sector.
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