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While in Las Vegas I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Bill Brown , SOA Executive Architect and one of the authors of IBM’s SOA Governance and Management Method (SGMM). The method presents an iterative and repeatable way to develop a SOA governance model, implement it and manage it over the life cycle of a service. The method includes processes, models, best practices, templates, a starter set of policies and baseline metrics for 17 industries.

In his talk that afternoon Bill described a Governance hierarchy starting with business governance that includes establishing chains of responsibility, authority and communication to empower people to make decisions, and establishing measurement, policy and control mechanisms to enable people to carry out their roles and responsibilities. IT Governance is a subset of corporate governance and includes all of the above relevant to the IT organization. SOA Governance is a subset of IT Governance focused on the lifecycle of services to ensure the business value of SOA.

In this hierarchy, IT Governance methodologies including ITIL and COBIT are very relevant.

Currently the method is available as a services engagement. IBM is also making it available as a free plug-in to the Rational Method Composer. However, that is a reduced set of content. It contains the phases, activities, and tasks, but no the templates, examples and metrics. IBM is also considering licensing the method itself.

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