Implementing SOA Governance Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (3 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Learn the need for governance and how many aspects of the business (such as sales and finance) are already strictly governed.
• Learn the IT practices that need to be governed (such as change management and availability).
• Learn the SOA practices that need to be governed (such as interoperability and architecture dispute resolution).
• Learn to measure key metrics and make decisions based on them (that will lead to continuous improvement).
• Learn to institute a well documented governance model within the organizations.
• Learn to enforce compliance with the model, gather key metrics and change IT practices based on the metrics.

Class Outline

1. SOA Fundamentals
   1. SOA in Context
   2. Defining SOA
   3. What makes a good design?
   4. The SOA Umbrella
   5. What s a Service?
   6. Service Actors
   7. Serving up SOA
   8. SOA and Business Process Management
   9. BPM Value Add
   10. SOA Governance
   11. SOA Governance Model
   12. SOA Job Role Impact
   13. SOA Value
   14. Is this a New Concept?
   15. Service Orienting the Enterprise
   16. Service Oriented Thinking
   17. SOA is Perfect
   18. Service Characteristics
   19. About Services in SOA
   20. Contract-driven software
   21. SOA Standards
2. A Tale of Two Companies
   1. Governance Touch Points
   2. Life Without Governance
   3. Providing a Service
   4. Consuming a Service
   5. Supporting Agreements
   6. Fighting Fires
   7. Life in Company B
   8. SOA Governance Overview
   9. Governance Provides Order
3. SOA Challenges and Risks
   1. SOA Challenges and Risks
   2. Emerging Standards
   3. Emerging Standards (contd)
   4. Selecting Tools and Infrastructure
   5. Service Selection and Creation
   6. Service Management
   7. Portfolio Management
   8. Paradigm Shifting
   9. Communication
   10. Policies and Compliance
   11. Project Management
   12. Training and Re-skilling
   13. Governance and Risk Mitigation
4. Governance Fundamentals
   1. The Strategic Role of IT
   2. Governing IT
   3. IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
   4. ITIL: Managing IT Activities
   5. ICT Infrastructure Management (ICTIM)
   6. ICTIM Processes
   7. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
   8. Need for SOA Governance
   9. SOA Governance
   10. SOA Governance Adoption
   11. Key Governance Relationships
   12. SOA Governance Elements
   13. SOA Governance Procedures
   14. Recommended Procedures
   15. More Recommended Procedure
   16. SOA Governance Policies
   17. Enterprise Policies
   18. Business Policies
   19. Service Policies
   20. SOA Governance Metrics
   21. More SOA Governance Metrics
   22. Some Best Practices
   23. Relevant Standards Work
   24. OASIS SOA-RM
   25. Reference Model in Context
   26. OASIS SOA-RA
5. Policies, Contracts, and SLAs
   1. OASIS SOA-RM View
   2. Governance by Policy
   3. Policy Types
   4. Policy Scope
   5. Service Contracts
   6. Service Contract Types
   7. What About WSDL?
   8. Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
   9. Defining Service Levels
   10. Stages of Governance
   11. Supporting Infrastructure
   12. Contractual SOA Governance
6. Service Models
   1. Service Orientation Artifacts
   2. The Service Model
   3. Developing a service model
   4. Service Model Example #1
   5. Service Model Example #2
   6. Service Model Example #3
   7. Service model granularity
   8. Service Contract Template
   9. Service Contract Template Part 2
   10. Service Contract Template Part 3
7. Governance Lifecycle
   1. The Stages of Governance
   2. Governance, Quality, & Management
   3. Quality-Governance Feedback
   4. Management-Governance Feedback
   5. Management-Quality Feedback
   6. Continuous Quality Assurance
   7. The Need for a Service Lifecycle
   8. Developing a Service Lifecycle
   9. Governance Lifecycle Tips
8. Organizational Strategies
   1. Centers of Excellence and Competency
   2. SOA Champions
   3. Pattern: Collaborative Enterprise
   4. Pattern: Process-driven Business
   5. SOA Project Roles
   6. SOA Project Roles Changes
   7. SOA Project Roles Changes
   8. SOA Project Roles Changes
   9. SOA Project Roles New
9. Governance Tools and Infrastructure
   1. Primary Governance Tools
   2. Service Registry
   3. Registry Capabilities
   4. Publishing Services
   5. Service Definition Metadata
   6. Service Description Metadata
   7. Service Discovery
   8. Service Management
   9. Lifecycle Management
   10. Policy Management
   11. Policy Management Tools
   12. Security Gateway
   13. Evolving Toolsets
10. Service Management
    1. Service Management
    2. Service Ownership
    3. Business Alignment
    4. Service Lifecycle Management
    5. SOA s Circle of Life
    6. SOA Service Life Cycle Overview
    7. Service Management Tips
    8. Service Management Gotchas
11. Financial Management
    1. SOA Budgeting
    2. Funding SOA
    3. Comparing Funding Models
    4. ROI Timeframes
    5. Managing SOA ROI
    6. Financial Management Tips
    7. Financial Management Gotchas
12. Configuration Management
    1. SOA Configuration Challenges
    2. Service Versioning
    3. XML Schema Versioning
    4. XML Schema Versioning Guidelines
    5. WSDL Versioning
    6. WSDL Versioning (continued)
    7. Standards Work
    8. Vendor Support
    9. Configuration Management Tips
    10. Configuration Management Gotchas
13. Service Portfolio Management
    1. The Service Portfolio Catalog
    2. Business Driver Alignment
    3. Service Portfolio Champions
    4. Categorizing Services
    5. Service Portfolio Mngmt Tips
    6. Service Portfolio Mngmt Gotchas
14. Architecture Management
    1. Beginning With the End in Mind
    2. A Little SOA Goes a Long Way
    3. Selective SOA: Bottom-up
    4. Selective SOA: Top-down
    5. Selective SOA: Value-based
    6. Selective SOA Venn Diagram
    7. Sizing Services
    8. Service Granularity
    9. Service Atomicity
    10. Service Granularity Matrix
    11. Reference Model and Architecture
    12. Architecture Management Tips
    13. Architecture Management Gotchas
15. IT Governance Models
    1. Governance Model Justification
    2. Governance Models
    3. Sole Governance
    4. Local Governance
    5. Intermediary Governance
    6. Federated Governance
    7. Governance Model Spectrum
    8. Hybrid Governance Model
16. Governance Models and ESB Topology
    1. Governance Model Overview
    2. ESB Topology
    3. Pattern: Single Logical ESB
    4. Pattern: Directly Connected ESB with Single Registry
    5. Pattern: Directly Connected ESB with Multiple Registries
    6. Pattern: Brokered ESB
    7. Pattern: Hub/Spoke ESB
    8. Pattern: Imposed ESB
    9. Hybrid ESB Topology
17. SOA Maturity
    1. Maturity and Governance
    2. Gauging SOA Maturity
    3. CMMI and SOA Maturity
    4. SOA Maturity Models
    5. SOA Maturity Model (CBDI)
    6. CBDI s Service Model
    7. SOA Maturity Model (IBM)
    8. IBM s Integration Model
    9. SOA Maturity Model (Wipro)
    10. Wipro s Model
    11. SOA Maturity Model (Sonic)
    12. Progress-Sonic s Model
    13. Comparing SOA Maturity Models
    14. SOA Adoption Roadmaps
    15. CBDI s Roadmap
    16. ZapThink s Roadmap Model
    17. Developing a Model and Roadmap
    18. Stages of Governance
    19. Growing Governance Sample 1
    20. Growing Governance Sample 1
    21. Growing Governance Sample 2
    22. Growing Governance Sample 2
    23. Growing Governance

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial:

• Basic project management skills.

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.