Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise

6.4. TURNING SOA GOALS INTO SOA PRINCIPLES

SOA principles are derivatives of business goals. While SOA goals are expressions of how an SOA initiative or strategy will enable or support the business and IT strategies, SOA principles are higher level guidelines that provide the basis for making decisions. SOA principles are aspirational in some regards and help provide high-level decision making criteria to facilitate and guide actions. SOA principles are reflections of business, IT, and SOA strategy goals. They are an essential bridge to translating SOA strategy into tangible implementable guidance for SOA services and technologies that will support the business objectives of the SOA initiative.