<p style="margin: 0px;"><b>The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects</b></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><i>SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud</i> is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation. Authored by world-renowned experts in the fields of SOA, IT governance, and cloud computing, this comprehensive book provides clear direction as to what does and does not constitute SOA governance and then steps the reader through the most important industry governance practices, as they pertain to individual SOA project lifecycle stages. </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">With a consistent, vendor-neutral focus, and with the help of case study examples, the authors demonstrate how to define and position precepts, organizational roles, processes, standards, and metrics. Readers benefit from thorough and visually depicted cross-references and mapping between roles, processes, precepts, and project stages, enabling them to fully explore dynamics and dependencies and thereby learn how to use these governance controls to create their own custom SOA governance systems. </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">This important title will be valuable to every practitioner concerned with making SOA work, including senior IT managers, project managers, architects, analysts, developers, administrators, QA professionals, security specialists, and cloud computing professionals.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b> </b></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><b>Topic Areas</b></p> <ul> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Defining SOA governance </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Establishing an SOA governance office and program </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Working with proven SOA governance precepts and processes </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Identifying organizational roles and relating them to SOA governance </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Associating design-time and runtime SOA project stages with SOA governance controls </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Governance considerations specific to shared services </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Roles, precepts, and factors specific to cloud-based services </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Understanding and categorizing SOA governance products and technologies </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Applying governance controls as early as the planning stages and measuring their success in subsequent stages </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> Using vitality triggers to govern shared services on an on-going basis </div></li> <li> <div style="margin: 0px;"> SOA governance controls that pertain to business information documents and policies </div></li> </ul> Read Less