1. A method for transitioning to management of a service oriented architecture (SOA) shared service comprising: automatically retrieving, using a computing device, a SOA shared service from a plurality of SOA shared services in a services registry, the SOA shared service having been previously developed as part of a SOA shared services project and having completed a service construction phase and being available for deployment; planning, using the computing device, after development has been completed, a transition from development of the SOA shared service to management of the SOA shared service by establishing governance criteria for the management of the SOA shared service; providing, to an operations group responsible for post-development ongoing maintenance of the SOA shared service, a set of maintenance guidelines that provide requirements for maintaining the SOA shared service and a set of tools necessary for satisfying the requirements of the maintenance guidelines, wherein the set of maintenance guidelines and the set of tools are generated by an SOA enablement group; and reviewing, using the computing device, the SOA shared service, after the development, based on the governance criteria and the maintenance guidelines to determine whether a deficiency with the SOA shared service exists and, based on a determination that a deficiency exists, using the governance criteria and the maintenance guidelines to transition at least one additional SOA shared service in conjunction with the SOA shared service, wherein all of the processes of the method are performed subsequent to the service construction phase of a SOA services lifecycle process (SLMP).