Whereas most people are just studying service-oriented architecture and don't really know what it is, let alone SOA governance, sometimes the "manage by technology" notion has a tendency to confuse things, David Linthicum explains.
There may be too much focus on SOA governance at this point.
"We seem to be spending a lot of time discussing how many services we're going to build before we need SOA governance, and not enough time on what that means to a more holistic architecture."
Instead, we need people who understand governance to control and drive policies and management around the services we're creating, and those not yet created.
Linthicum urges IT pros to do a lot of research before jumping feet first into any kind of architecture. Experience, after all, is an excellent teacher.
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Posted by Tom Sullivan on February 28, 2008 10:26 AM
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