SOA Governance Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: The Essence of SOA Governance
Chapter 2: Extending Project Governance for SOA
Chapter 3: Avoiding a Bunch of Services
Chapter 4: Service Versioning
Chapter 5: Governing the Analysis Process
Chapter 6: Governing Run-Time Behavior
Chapter 7: SOA Success
Chapter 8: Establishing SOA Governance at Your Organization
Appendix: Cast of Characters
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: The Essence of SOA Governance
  • What is Governance?
    • Desired Behavior
    • People
    • Policies
    • Process
  • What is IT Governance?
  • What is SOA?
    • Services in IT
  • What is SOA Governance?
    • People
    • Policies
    • Processes
  • Is All this Needed?
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Extending Project Governance for SOA
  • Beginning the SOA Journey
  • The First Milestone
  • The Second Milestone
  • The Opportunity
  • Beginning Your SOA Journey
    • Key Project Roles
    • The Service Contract
    • Adding SOA to Traditional Project Governance
    • Service Implementation Technologies
    • Service Communication Technologies
      • WS-I Compliance
      • Security Credentials
    • Service Interface Specification
      • Using a Canonical Model
      • Web Services, POX over HTTP, and REST
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Avoiding a Bunch of Services
  • Undirected Service Creation
    • Effort One: Hot Potato
    • Effort Two: What Customer Service?
    • Effort Three: Where Did They Go?
    • The SOA Center of Excellence
  • Enterprise SOA Governance
    • Establishing Goals
    • Roles
      • Enterprise Architecture
      • Information Architecture
      • IT Management
      • Business Management
      • Developers
      • Analysts
      • Database Analysts (DBAs)
      • Center of Excellence
      • Engagement Model
    • Design-Time Checkpoints
      • Analysis Checkpoint
      • Architecture Checkpoint
      • Design Checkpoint
      • Implementation Checkpoints
      • Operational Readiness Checkpoint
    • Service Portfolio Management
      • The Service Registry/Repository
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Service Versioning
  • Making a Change
  • The Chief Information Officer's Concern
    • The COE Tackles Service Versioning Policies
  • Service Versioning Policies
    • Explicit or Implicit Versioning
    • Extending the Service Contract
    • Policy-Driven Infrastructure
      • Applying Policy
      • Enterprise Service Bus
      • XML Appliances
      • Service Management Platforms
      • Service Invocation and Exposure Frameworks
      • Conceptual View
  • Service Lifecycle Management
    • Monitoring
    • Management
    • Marketing
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Governing the Analysis Process
  • Building the Right Services
  • Analysis for SOA
    • Business Process Analysis
    • Business Capability Mapping
      • Business Capability Analysis
  • Project Inception Checkpoints
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Governing Run-Time Behavior
  • Preparing for Partner Services
    • The First Sign of Trouble
    • Day Two
    • Day Three
    • Day Four
      • Testing the Solution
  • Run-Time SOA Governance and the Service Contract
    • Ensuring Consistent Performance
      • Metric Collection
    • Preventing Consumer Starvation
      • Defining Service Consumer Baselines
      • Defining Service Provider Baselines
      • Managing Run-time Usage
    • Detecting Potential Problems
      • Synthetic Transactions
      • Predictive Analysis
    • Service Management Technologies
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: SOA Success
  • Celebrating Success
  • Changing Behavior
    • The Inherent Risk of Governance
    • Changing Governance Over Time
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Establishing SOA Governance at Your Organization
  • People
    • Solution Architect
    • Business Analyst
    • Technical Lead/Domain Architect
    • Enterprise Architect/Technology Architect
    • Information Architect
    • Security Architect
    • IT Manager
    • Service Manager/Owner
    • Platform Manager
    • Other Stakeholders
    • Organizing Your People
      • Enterprise Architecture Driven
      • Center of Excellence/Competency Center
      • Review Boards
      • Common Challenges
  • Policies
    • Pre-Project Governance
      • Artifacts
      • Policies for Pre-Project Governance
    • Project Governance
      • Artifacts
      • Policies for Project Governance
    • Run-time Governance
      • Policy-Driven Infrastructure
      • Service Contracts
      • Policies for Run-Time Governance
  • SOA Governance Processes
    • Establishing Desired Behavior and Policies
    • Education and Communication
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Measurement and Improvement
  • SOA Governance Technologies
    • Service Registry/Repository
    • Service Testing Platforms
    • Enterprise Service Bus
    • XML Appliances and Security Gateways
    • Service Management Platforms
    • Service Invocation and Exposure Frameworks
  • Summary

• Appendix: Cast of Characters

• Index

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