Re: [soa-rm] new topic for discussion: shared services

[Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>]

Let’s start with identifying the aspects of shared services that need to be addressed.  While governance is certainly important, I believe there are other areas of impact.  

For example, I was recently in a discussion on the conditions under which a provider wants to know about a consumer, e.g. how much use, before agreeing to allowing the consumer access to the service.  The term used was “onboarding”.

Consider the following screen shot of a discussion slide:

So while governance will establish things to consider and processes for considering them (and management will need to make sure the wishes of governance are carried out), are there more technical things, like monitoring or testing aspects to consider?  (So the testing section of the SOA-RAF might also come into play.)  What about (enterprise) shared services that could be considered infrastructure, and to what extent does your labeling something as infrastructure depend on your context?

Just a few more grains for thought.

Ken

On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Sweet Jr., William H <wsweet@mitre.org> wrote:

The governance section of RM / RA are very strong. I believe we can update those sections is a reasonable amount of time to clarify shared services.

 

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Hi Ken,

I think it is imperative that we discuss this thoroughly because otherwise it is going bite us in the behind.

Cheers,
Rex

On 3/4/2015 7:47 PM, Ken Laskey wrote:

All, 

 

The terms “shared services” or “enterprise shared services” often turn up in my world but the concepts are typically ill-defined, the criteria  are nonexistent, and the ramifications have not been explored.  Would this group be interested in adding this as another topic of discussion (and possibly a future document) along side our current SOA ontology work?

 

Note: a reasonable question is what do I mean by these terms, but I’d like to establish interest rather than just generating spam.

 

Thanks,

 

Ken

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