sapienti sat: Making SOA Ready for the Enterprise

There seems to be no way to keep an easily accessible index of entries beyond the most recent ten. So I thought I would organize a table of content entry and try to keep it close to the top - although in order to achive this I will have to periodically delete and republish it again. This will also give me a chance to provide some kind of categorization that would be more relevant then chronological.

Conceptual

1. SOA Governance Defined - attempt to come up with definition that would make sense to business.
2. SOA governance – the perspectives - a summary of what others (analysts, customers, vendors) call Governance.
3. SOA Governance Terminology and Positioning - a critique of existing SOA Governance terminology and attempt to introduce some improvements.
4. SOA Governance Primer - an household example to illustrate some key concepts and differentiators of our approach to SOA Governance.
5. Service Classification - describes the approaches to service categorization and its importance for SOA
6. Adventures in the Magic Quadrant - thoughts about the latest (and as far as I know, the first) Gartner's Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance and how it reminds me of my first disaster movie.
7. Carbon Dating SOA Governance - an attempt to find out who first came up with the idea and when did it happen.
8. Demarcating between SOA Governance and ESB - a look at the similarities and the differences between SOA Governance and ESB problem domains and attempt to look at them as difference sides of the unified service mediation function.
9. Why Bother with SOA Governance? - a look at the role and importance of governance today from the point of view of an SOA vendor.
10. Multiple Personalities of SOA Governance - a humorous attempt to understand the widely different perceptions of SOA Governance through psychiatric diagnosis.

Architectural

1. SOA Governance Evaluation Guidelines - general principles which might be useful when selecting or architecting a comprehensive SOA Governance Solution.
2. Aspect-Based SOA Governance - introduction and advocacy.
3. Delegated Governance - introduction and advocacy.
4. Analysis-time Governance - introduction and advocacy.
5. Service Refinement - introduction, use cases and advocacy.
6. Brownfield-friendly Governance - introduction and advocacy.
7. Governance Information Model - overview.
8. Service Lease - introduction, advocacy and implementation details.
9. Aspect Enforcement - describes what kinds of aspects are found in an enterprise governance ecosystem, how they are used to define Governance Contracts and introduces the taxonomy of Aspect Enforcement Levels.
10. find-bind-execute or what u-boats and 20-engine planes have to do with delivering on the original promise of SOA
11. Defining an STU - defining the scope and requirements for an enterprise-grade Service Taxonomy Utility
12. SOA Governance 1.1 (1.2, 1.5, 2.0…) or Why is it so hard for Governance products to do Service Versioning right? - discussion about proper service versioning fo SOA.
13. To Common Information Model, or not to … - a discussion about the role of Governace in transitioning from JaBoWS to Enterprise SOA, the need (or lack of) for Common Information Model, and the difference between Governace Aspects and systemic -ilities.

Security

1. SOA Security Challenges - on importance or SOA Security and how it differs from the other kinds of IT security.
2. SOA Security Standards - part of the solution or the problem? Probably both…
3. A Formal SOA Security Model - introduction to a formal model and notation to talk about SOA Security.
4. Security Model Details - part II of the description of the SOA Security Model.
5. SOA Security Vision - a conclusion to [this iteration of] the SOA Security Series that defines a common set of requirements for a SOA Security Platform and provides some recommendations and best practices for implementing Secure SOA.