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The fact that you're reading this article means that you are probably planning a service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative and recognize that some level of governance is required in order to be successful. If you are like most people in this position, you are also somewhat confused as to the meaning of SOA governance. Governance is the current buzzword, and combining governance with SOA creates a phrase that every independent software vendor (ISV) wants a piece of. How do you sort out what is marketing hype from what is truly valuable and relevant to your organization's SOA efforts?
Governance Scope Within an IT Organization
Much of the hype around SOA governance has been focused on operational governance. Defining, tracking, and managing factors like service-level agreements (e.g., average response time, peak response time, average throughput, peak throughput) and authorization policies (e.g., users from organization A are allowed to invoke this service while users from organization B aren't) are clearly important once the pieces of an SOA get up and running within an organization's IT infrastructure.
However, while operational governance and management is necessary for a successful SOA initiative, it is not sufficient. For an organization to effectively define and implement an SOA (and not simply implement a series of point-to-point services masquerading as an SOA, but in fact creating another layer of technology spaghetti), it must extend SOA governance back to the development and architectural perspectives. To be successful with SOA, you must find a way to bind these perspectives together as seamlessly as possible to enable effective information flow in both directions: from architecture to development to operations, and vice versa. Let's investigate each of these governance perspectives in turn.
Architectural Governance
Architectural governance at the enterprise architecture (EA) level involves three key elements: 1) making core decisions about business or technological functionality within the enterprise, 2) sufficiently documenting those decisions so that downstream consumers (the teams responsible for developing and deploying services and applications) can quickly understand and make effective use of those decisions, and 3) reviewing the project-specific application of those decisions. In order for an EA team to execute these tasks, it must have at its disposal an effective way to disseminate the knowledge assets it produces, to track and understand which knowledge assets are being applied to specific projects, and to document the review of those project-specific decisions.
Design-Time (Development) Governance
In many ways, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) governance within an SOA initiative is a reflection of decisions made at the EA level. Decisions about the scope and granularity of business services to be implemented and the technical approach to be used in implementing those services must be applied to specific service production or consumption (i.e., application development) projects. However, SDLC governance extends beyond appropriate application of EA guidance to the actual analysis, design, implementation, and testing of the resulting services and/or applications required by the IT project at hand. With respect to service production, SDLC governance involves the progressive "hardening" of the service as it progresses through its requirements definition, design, implementation/unit test, and integration/system test phases to eventual deployment in the operational environment. When applied to service consumption, governance may involve both internal project-specific reviews (e.g., have the appropriate services been selected, have requirements for new services been identified) and external reviews from the perspective of service providers (e.g., does the use of this service within this application conform to enterprise-specific or government-mandated privacy rules, does the service implementation contain open source components and if so, are the components used in a manner such that enterprise-specific intellectual property is not compromised).
Operational Governance/Management
Operational governance/management within an SOA involves applying appropriate business and technical policies (e.g., which groups and users are allowed to invoke a particular service, what are the minimum throughput and response time expectations required of a service) to deployed services. Business policies are often implemented within an SOA by an Enterprise Service Bus or SOA Fabric integrated with the enterprise's authentication and authorization infrastructure, while technical policies are typically monitored by a services management platform. The cumulative set of governed technical policies is often referred to as a service-level agreement (SLA). Examples of SLA-level technical governance elements within an SOA are:
- Average throughput
- Peak throughput
- Type and description of committed SLA
- Availability
- Consuming service clients
- Hardware and software configuration
- Fault history
- Alert thresholds
How do we map these governance disciplines into an organization's structure and roles? Because of the loosely coupled nature of SOA, SOA governance is a new discipline that has implications for existing corporate and IT institutions as well as for new organizational structures and processes (and the politics associated with those structures and processes). Proper focus on what governance is, how it can be achieved, and its implementation can help make governance a valuable and necessary function to support your SOA migration.
SOA governance has an impact on current IT governance processes. Some of these processes include the budgeting and project approval process, portfolio management activities, and ongoing oversight of projects to assure budgetary compliance. Applying governance to SOA activities is critical because there may have to be changes to the normal IT governance processes for budgeting and portfolio management.
Think about the budgeting process of your organization. That budgeting process has a tremendous impact on the behavior of various organizations and their IT representatives. If there is no budgetary control of projects to influence them to adopt SOA and reusable services as their fundamental design concepts, then projects will go their own way as driven by the requirements of that particular business unit or project. The same goes for the portfolio management process. If there is no mechanism to surface SOA and reuse opportunities for all projects and then apply budgetary pressure to converge them toward an SOA, then they will similarly go their own way. SOA governance, budgeting, and portfolio management are ways to influence behavior of business units, as well as the IT and business personnel within them, to more aggressively support SOA and reuse.
Enterprise architecture processes may undergo similar changes given the advent of an SOA initiative in an organization. Often the architecture process and organization will have to be restructured to accommodate the requirements of an SOA initiative because the skills, roles, and functions of an EA team are not completely appropriate for an SOA initiative. Think about the process of architecture as two tiers of activities: one tier is the architecture strategy and goals, followed by the definition of the elements, standards, and organization of architecture to accomplish those goals. The second tier is the application of architecture to funded projects, the acquisition or implementation of various technologies and standards, and the enforcement of compliance to the enterprise architecture goals (see Figure 1).
These are two related yet distinct processes, and often they are not as interdependent as CIOs would like. Think about the cases where there is a chief architect or central architecture group at corporate headquarters, and then also present are the solution architects assigned to projects. They actually build systems and implement technologies and standards. Who has the most direct bearing on the architecture that ultimately is implemented in a given organization? Naturally it is the person assigned to the budgeted project that was sponsored by a specific business unit that ultimately funded the project. The behavior associated with enterprise architecture is similarly related to the organization and processes used to achieve the goals of SOA, architecture compliance, portfolio management, and budgetary compliance.
|robertmorschel 10/10/12 03:57:00 AM EDT
In my experience SOA needs to begin with a single, skilled team that can define evolving standards and processes in an agile manner, before being let loose on the enterprise; and even then, only if the enterprise has an established and effective centralised governance function that would be able to enforce SOA policies across multiple teams.
|Gary Smith - SOA Network Architect 02/22/06 11:51:19 AM EST
Excellent. This puts governance into perspective.
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16 June 2014
Ed Slater will captain an experienced England side against the Crusaders at AMI Stadium tomorrow, kick-off 8:35am BST, live on Sky Sports.
The Leicester Tigers lock, who led his club in their late surge in the second half of the domestic season, will skipper a side containing 11 capped internationals.
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The 25-year-old is one of four senior England debutants along with Northampton Saints loose-head prop Alex Waller, Gloucester Rugby centre Henry Trinder and Bath Rugby wing Anthony Watson. Christchurch-born Michael Paterson, a former Crusader, is named on the replacements' bench with fellow uncapped trio Dave Ward, Nathan Catt and Kyle Sinckler.
England are looking for a first win of the tour in Christchurch after narrow defeats in the first Test in Auckland (20-15) and the second Test (28-27) in Dunedin.
Stuart Lancaster outlined the importance of the game on the four-game tour and added that Slater is a natural leader. "This is a really important match for us in terms of the development of our squad," said the England Head Coach.
"We wanted this game to test ourselves against a top Super 15 side and with a large squad out here we are hoping to create opportunities for everyone to lay down a marker on this tour. We can see by how they have trained that they can't wait to pull on an England shirt tomorrow.
"Ed is a natural leader who has captained Leicester well and I am sure he will do the same with this England side. We are treating this like an additional Test and I know the Crusaders will be highly motivated to put in a good performance on the back of their Super 15 form."
England will be supporting the rebuilding of Christchurch by wearing the Canterbury Rugby Earthquake Relief Charitable Trust logo on their playing jerseys and donating 10 specially embroidered signed shirts to be auctioned off in aid of the fund.
15 Alex Goode (Saracens)
14 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
13 Henry Trinder (Gloucester Rugby)
12 Brad Barritt (Saracens)
11 Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby)
10 Danny Cipriani (Sale Sharks)
9 Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
1 Alex Waller (Northampton Saints)
2 Joe Gray (Harlequins)
3 Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks)
4 Ed Slater (Leicester Tigers, capt)
5 Dave Attwood (Bath Rugby)
6 James Haskell (London Wasps)
7 Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby)
8 Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs)
16 David Ward (Harlequins)
17 Nathan Catt (Bath Rugby)
18 Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins)
19 Michael Paterson (Sale Sharks)
20 Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens)
21 Stephen Myler (Northampton Saints)
22 Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby)
23 Chris Pennell (Worcester Warriors)


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This lesson plan can be downloaded to your computer as a PDF document. If you would like to edit this document for your classroom needs, go to the "Handouts and Materials" section and click on the corresponding link.
Source: Stephanie Hicks
The following files can be downloaded to your computer:
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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development (PDF document)
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O'Brien, Tim. "On the Rainy River". The Things They Carried. Mariner Books, 2009.
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development by W.C. Crain
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"Fists of Fury? I wonder if these bandits ever realized their intimidatin' name sounds more like the title of a gay porno?" –Jessy, pondering how much of a threat the prison gang truly poses..
"I'm going to do you a favor and not ask how you know so much about gay porno titles okay?"-Riley, not missing the opportunity to poke fun at the old man.
"Do yourself a favor and never visit one of those 24 hour video rental stores to make a phone call when your truck breaks down." –Jessy, remembering the first and last time he frequented an adult video store.
A re-evaluation of the basic concept of Man vs. Nature
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This was the big leap. I think we are ready for play testing.
Field Guide on Werewolves, and those who hunt them.
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Known Lycanthrope Hunter, Specializing in Werewolves
As gamers we have done the western with laser pistols, six shooters and steam tech. Shadow run alone has covered more noir ground than MGM did between 1945 and 1955. I hope we managed the horror genre well, and the murder mystery almost always sneaks its way into our campaigns. But do we always know we are doing it? Can genre sit right in front of us an yet go undefined? I think it has happened and a speculative fiction genre of all things.
A Scrasamax rebuild/rewrite incorporating elements of Vampire the Masquerade, Requiem, and some stuff that I made up or borrowed from popular Vampire culture. Without background knowledge of the Vampire game or system, most of this might not make much if any sense.
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Ah, yes. The darkest of nights and the reflection of a casting light. In Shadow lies the powers of stealth and silence, the ultimate tool for a secretive victory.
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Ideally the creatures described within this (ongoing) sub will be detailed in turn as their own seperate submissions eventally painting a complete picture of purgatoy.
Blood. Ah, yes. Blood. Such a wonderful tool when you know how to use it. Welcome, my friend, to the wonderful world of Blood Magic.
A short, simple, rough RPG that I wrote for fun. I've only played it a couple of times, so any feedback on how it works would be much appreciated.
A horror short story that was inspired by of one of my Kult rpg characters background. Disturbing content, adult language, graphic descriptions, and horrifying situations are contained within, reader discretion is advised.
How we finally made the First Contact.
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PORT ALLEGANY ŌĆō The Kane Lady Wolves upped their record to 3-0 as they traveled to Port Allegany and defeated the Gators 7-5. Kyla Hoag got her third win, giving up nine hits, striking out four, and walking one. The Wolves scored their runs on five hits and nine walks.
It had been a very rewarding Monday morning for Adam Smelko of Kane.
Keith L. Hadfield, 50, of 113 Welsh St., Kane, passed away suddenly on┬Ā Sunday (April 14, 2013) at UPMC Hamot in Erie.
Born Nov. 8, 1962, in Kane, he was a son of Keith Hadfield and Marilyn Geer Hadfield.┬ĀOn Dec. 14, 1990, in Kane, he married Lanette Paul who survives.
Keith was employed at Graftech and prior to that had worked for the Local 603 and Osram-Sylvania.┬ĀHe had served in the U.S. Marines, attaining the rank of Corporal.
SMETHPORT ŌĆō The McKean County Board of Commissioners has agreed to become a ŌĆ£pass-throughŌĆØ agency for a proposed grant for the Pennsylvania Wilds Planning Team.
MT. JEWETT ŌĆō A Spaghetti Dinner to benefit Vicky Robinson of Mt. Jewett will be held Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Mt. Jewett Fire Hall.
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The Kane High School Trap team narrowly lost to Ridgway/Johnsonburg in their first home match of the year. The visitors defeated Kane by a score of 130-122.
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The LaGrange Police Department reported that on Friday they arrested Kari K. Olinger, 43, of LaGrange for burglary at the LaGrange American Legion.
A traffic stop on March 7 in LaGrange resulted in four people being arrested on meth charges.
ParkviewLaGrange Hospital's Board of Directors welcomed two new members at their February meeting, Sherryl Rhinesmith and Dr. Rhonda Sharp.
On March 4, a deputy from the LaGrange County Sheriff's Department pulled over a vehicle on CR 200N for having no license plate light.
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Weather Averages for Chania in May
Averages for Chania in May
Chania in May is splendid since the weather is not too hot yet, or too cold. This makes the place perfect for all tourists who love to do some hiking or nature tripping at the outskirts of the city.
Make sure to pack up some sunscreen lotion to protect yourself from the dangerous UV rays of the sun. This is also a great time for you to bring those summer dresses and cotton shirts so you can be able to move around comfortably in the warm and sunny weather.
The average high temperature during May is 25°C or 77°F. As for the lowest point, the city has an average temperature of 15°C or 59°F.
The average days of rainfall is about 3 this time, giving you an almost rain-free month that you can completely enjoy and take advantage of.
The sun will shine for full eight hours every day so get ready to wear some shades even at the brink of night.
The water temperature is at 19°C or 66°F while the humidity rate is at 60%.
May weather is quite comfortable in the city and this is probably the best time for you to visit Chania since it is not yet crowded by the tourists.
Although the days have endless sunshine, make sure that you bring a light sweater to warm you up in case chilly winds start to catch up on you.
The month of May in the city can be pretty quiet and quaint. It can certainly help you relax with the slow-paced environment that you will be experiencing at this time of the year. Celebrating Labour Day and the Feast of the Flowers only adds to the enchanting ambience that you can find in the subdued city. T
hese are wonderful events that are celebrated by having picnics by the countryside while the sky is embellished with artistically designed kites.


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50 Shades of Grey was so last summer. These 50 ideas are real tips guaranteed to make your life a little more fun and a whole lot more sexy.
By Anna Davies
Flirt with the shaggy-haired barista
So he's a decade younger than you and may have let a Ryan Lochte-like 'jeah' slip when you asked if skim milk was available. That doesn't mean there's any harm in letting him know how adorable he is. Giving a guy a compliment — even when you're attached, not really interested, and know you would never want to be with him in the real world — will make his day, and give you confidence in yours.


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Thank goodness for Charlie Macdonald. After all that he learned at St. Andrews, he spent the rest of his life trying to bring the game he knew and loved back to America.
Alister MacKenzie.
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Augusta National.
Unique. Spectacular. One of the most emotional courses you could ever play.
Especially in 1995.
[Laughs] Well, the small area between triumph and disaster.
You played your 42nd Masters this year. How many more starts do you have left in the tank?
[Laughs] I've thought about this for the last five years. I tell myself, "This is crazy. What are you doing? Just sit back and watch." But I can't get it out of my system, not necessarily to [be competitive] on the course, but to just keep playing and experiencing it. It's so much fun for me and my family. But there will be a time—it's way beyond my capabilities, I can tell you that.
You played with Guan Tianlang this year, the 14-year-old whiz kid from China. Is he for real?
That kid amazed me. He did not change at all over 36 holes. He had so much discipline. He has a big, long swing and a gorgeous short game. Gosh, his short game is beautiful. You would think he would lose his balance and swing out of his shoes once or twice. He kept his left heel on the ground. It'll be interesting to see how much he grows. What a confident, quiet mind.
Tom Doak built the Blue course at Streamsong at the same time that you built the Red course. Deep down, did you want your course to turn out just a little bit better?
We compete with nature. We're constantly in a match, I suppose, with her. You make a wrong move and it doesn't look natural. That's when you have to tone it down and do something different. I love [working on] courses that look like they were set in nature, and being able to bring the geographical features out. Perry Maxwell said, "A golf course must be there, not brought there." I love that.
But didn't you want your course to be better than Doak's?
We had fun working with each other. All our workers would gather at lunch and throw around ideas and talk about the business. We were peering over the hill to see what they were doing, and they were looking at what we were doing. It was fun. We share a philosophy with them. It was slightly a contest, but we were trying to put the two pieces of ground together in the best way we could. It was a unique situation with undulating land in Florida, beautiful sand, vegetation, and some beautiful water that was man-made.
Which course that you've designed is the most overlooked?
Hidden Creek in New Jersey, outside Atlantic City, is a neat course. We're proud of it. And a lot of people haven't seen Old Sandwich up in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Which of your designs do you get back to the most, and why?
"I do think it's time we [rolled back the ball]. Go back over the last 20 years—how many billions of dollars have been spent on the acquisition of land, retrofitting courses, trying to protect scores?"
Obviously, this one [Austin Golf Club]. We get to Sand Hills as much as we can. Julie [Crenshaw's wife] and I go to Long Island every year, so we'll get to see East Hampton Golf Club and Friar's Head. We have friends up there, and Julie enjoys going up there very much.
What three courses would you be happy playing every day?
St. Andrews, Royal Melbourne, and probably Cypress Point.
Harvey Penick was instrumental in your playing career. Did he also influence your design career?
Harvey knew Perry Maxwell and drove him around Austin to see a suitable site [for the new Austin Country Club, where Crenshaw and Tom Kite learned the game from Penick]. They picked a spot east of town that had sandy soil and close proximity to a water source, which was Lake Austin and the Colorado River. Harvey had a little bit of a hand in helping Perry with where the site was. He built it in '49. It was one of his last projects. But Harvey -- I can't say we talked specifically about golf architecture so much, but he knew I was interested in it.
In 20 years, will there be more golf courses or fewer?
Boy, that's a good question. I'm hopeful there'll be more. All of us want participation. That's the goal. In the real scheme of things, it's like Harvey—he wanted to introduce the game to people and he wanted to keep them there. He knew how good the game was for people. There's something about a golf course; you go out there, there's no buildings—it's so peaceful.
What kind of feedback have you received about your restoration of Pinehurst No.2, next year's U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open venue?
It's been very good. It's a high, high honor to be involved in that, very sentimental for Bill, and equally enthralling for me because they've got such a great set of archives. The Tufts Library is incredible. It was a lot of fun, but daunting at first because the course was so different.


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After Pepe wins the poker game with a pair of twos he started singing "You Got To Know When To Hold 'Em, Know When To Fold 'Em..." which is from the Gambler
The hole that Rizzo makes behind a sexy poster of the "Mice Girls" is a reference to the hole Andy Dufresne makes in the film behind various posters of female movie stars when he escapes from prison.
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Poster in "how will we get there" sequence.
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DVD on Gary and Walter's TV
A Muppets film that failed to be a Muppet fan's dream film.
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Early in the movie, the king prawn Pepe distorts his voice by talking into a table fan and says "Build a jacuzzi and we will come, okay?". This remark is a spoof on Field Of Dreams (1989) where Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice in his field that says: "Build it and he will come" (where "it" refers to a baseball field). In both movies the main characters go with the voices and finish their projects without really knowing why.