Getting a Better Governance Picture from IBM
After attending this morning's "Getting
Started with SOA" session,
i was getting more concerned that IBM was missing the mark on their definition
of SOA Governance and its relationship to IT Governance. This afternoon,
I am sitting in a session entitled "SOA
Governance and Management Methodology",
presented by Bill
Brown and Jon
Richter of IBM. Bill wrote the
SOA Governance Methodology
for IBM. They are doing a much
better job at explaining what governance is and how SOA governance fits
into the bigger picture of IT Governance and, by extension, Corporate Governance.
I think there was a breakdown between the content in the first session,
and what I am hearing now. What I heard in the first session just sounded
plain wrong and I was shaking my head as the speaker was giving what was
tagged as the "IBM Definition" of governance, implying that IBM
felt that SOA Governance should drive overall IT Governance in an organization.
The information be presented now is much clearer, more "correct"
and, to me, more understandable. Perhaps it should have been presented
first, or even replaced the first session this morning.