SOA Executive Forum
I’ve been at the InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum today, including my stint on Phil Windley’s panel on SOA Governance. I was joined by Ed Vazquez from Sprint-Nextel, along with two last minute substitutions, Jeff Schneider of MomentumSI and Sean Fitts of AmberPoint.
As Ed pointed out, we covered the entire SOA Governance map, whether run-time, design-time, and everywhere in between. Thankfully, we didn’t have to employ any Jerry Springer-esque techniques to keep the audience interested. The interesting part for me was that we were all coming from different points of view, but yet we seemed to agree on all of the major points. My points were consistent with my previous posts, which is to match your SOA governance to your corporate culture. Just as we shouldn’t boil the SOA ocean if the organization still develops in silos, we can’t govern everything if we’ve never governed before.
Both Jeff and Ed made great points on the importance of grass roots governance, that is, relying on the people in the trenches. An ivory tower approach to governance will not be successful, especially when it’s the people in the trenches who have to adhere to the policies.
All in all, it was a lot of fun. Thanks to Phil for the opportunity, and I hope we can do it again.
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