Re: [soa-rm-ra] draft of RA governance section

This is just stylistics, but it's been bugging me.  

Rather than the anthropomorphic "governance" at the start of the second paragraph under 5.1.1.1 Terminology, should we say, "To accomplish this, organizations require governance structure...to carry out their mandates." 

On Feb 16, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Danny Thornton wrote:
  
Somebody has been busy. I would say we are at the
 point where the RA doc has hit its puberty stage.
 
 I gave the Governance section a once over and only
 have few comments for now.
 
 1) The following sentence is a chicken and egg
 situation:
 
 Rules and Regulations MUST be based on collected
 Metrics or there will be no way for Management to
 assess compliance. 
 
 Could be
 
 Rules and Regulations MUST rely on collected Metrics
 or there will be no way for Management to assess
 compliance. 
 
 2) The following sentence could be dropped from the
 RA.
 
 A minimal degree of agreement often presages
 participants who “slow-roll” if not actively reject
 complying with Policies that express the specifics of
 governance.
 
 The paragraph leading up to this sentence was good but
 then the train of thought rolled a few feet beyond the
 stop sign for the RA.
 
 3) I found the following sentence to be too strong of
 a statement for the RA.
 
 Those responsible for carrying out governance mandates
 must have Leadership who makes it clear to
 Participants that expressed Policies are seen as a
 means to realizing established goals and that
 compliance with governance mandates is not optional.
 
 This statement does not take into consideration those
 times when a person's judgement is required to
 determine if noncompliance may have been of a
 necessity or beneficial. The statement is a black and
 white philosophy for governance, one that can often
 lead to the infringement of the emotional quality of
 the participants being governed as well as the
 detriment of the governed body/organization as a
 whole.  My suggestion is to soften the statement by
 changing:
 
 mandates is not optional
 
 to
 
 mandates is required.
 
 4) Section 5.1.4 - Architectural Imiplications of SOA
 Governance - is a good check list on the architectural
 pieces involved in SOA Governance.
 
 Danny
 
 
 
 
 --- Ken Laskey <> wrote:
 
 > After sifting through email threads, recommended
 > articles, and 
 > numerous other discussions, comments and
 > suggestions, the attached is 
 > a complete draft of the governance section.
 >
 > Items to note:
 >
 > 1. The previous UML model was getting a bit busy, so
 > it was broken 
 > down into the four separate models shown.  If
 > reassembled into one, 
 > the result would be very close to what was last
 > discussed during our 
 > telecons.
 >
 > 2. I suggested at one point that we have a lot of
 > great content but 
 > I'm afraid we might lose the reader, so we should
 > include something 
 > of a summary at the end of each major (TBD) section.
 >  The 
 > Architectural Implications section is an example of
 > this applied to 
 > the governance discussion.
 >
 > I would usually say comments are welcome but I'm
 > afraid to invite the 
 > barrage I expect to follow.  However, I guess it
 > comes with the 
 > territory.
 >
 > Ken
 >
 > 
 >
 >
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 >   703-983-1379
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 >
 
 
 
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