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All-the-time SOA Governance
Bob Rhubart's Blog |
February 20, 2008 2:55 PM
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IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson has published an interview with Forrester analyst Frank Kenney. In it, Kenney offers this comment on the design-time/runtime split. [T]he idea of governance is not a design time, or a run-time aspect, it's a kind of all-the-time aspect. So, some of the folks in an organization that may be more design-centric work with developers, and that's really all they do, and they're not concentrating (or they're not bothered with) the execution time, or the execution environment will have to come up to speed with some attributes of the runtime, and vice versa. They have to understand some of the issues that happen during development and design time. And that's the tricky thing: Working with a vendor who only looks at their technology as being runtime or design time is probably going to get you in trouble because they're not telling the entire story. And if a vendor says to me, “We really deal with the design-time aspects,” what they are basically saying to me is they don't understand truly what governance is. Give that man a cigar! This relates, of course, to the running discussion among several bloggers (I listed them all in an earlier post) on defining SOA governance, SOA governance vs. agility, and on coming up with a new label for SOA governance. Someone -- I don't remember who at this point -- suggested "service life cycle management." I don't know that I'd bother with a name change, but at least that one suggests a more holistic view of what goes on in SOA -- and that's essential for effective SOA governance. Read Loraine's entire Frank Kenney interview here: Before You Buy: Understanding SOA Governance Tools | IT Business Edge
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