The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Beth Gold-Bernstein , 06/25/2009
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How much governance is enough?
The entire nation seems to be embroiled in the debate over determining the right level of governance. No one wants to pay for too much. Nor does anyone wish to weigh down innovation and growth with too many policies and procedures. Lack of governance led to the excesses and failures of the financial industry, which took our retirement savings, home values and jobs down with it. Now how much should the government intervene to bail out failing industries when so many of us stand to suffer? Lack of governance clearly has its price as well.
When Anne Thomas Manes decided to stir things up and wrote SOA's obituary, it was clear she was not saying that the concepts of SOA are incorrect. She was saying the implementations are failing. It's too difficult, too big, and not working. Yet regardless of the failures to date, SOA is the best design pattern available to meet the changing needs of distributed organizations, processes, applications and platforms. The design pattern has been known and in use for almost three decades. So what's the problem? The anecdotal evidence I have gathered thus far makes me believe the real problem is the lack of governance.
Defining governance
Recently I have been having discussions about SOA governance with a number of people, including organizations implementing SOA, vendors, and other analysts. One thing became quickly apparent. It is first important to establish a common meaning of the word "governance" as everyone seems to have their own. This is how Wikipedia defines it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance
Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes. Sometimes people set up a government to administer these processes and systems...in terms of distinguishing the term governance from government (both of them nouns) - "governance" is what a "government" does.
In the case of a business or of a non-profit organization, governance relates to consistent management, cohesive policies, processes and decision-rights for a given area of responsibility.
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