Evaluating Service Oriented Architecture Governance Maturity

A system for evaluating service oriented architecture (‘SOA’) governance maturity, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

• receiving, from a plurality of predetermined stakeholders in the SOA for a plurality of SOA governance capabilities, a stakeholder assessed value representing the current maturity of each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities;
• determining, for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities in dependence upon the plurality of stakeholder assessed values from the stakeholders, a capability value for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities;
• assigning each of the SOA governance capabilities to a domain;
• determining, in dependence upon the capability values for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities of each domain, a domain maturity value for each domain;
• and
• communicating the domain maturity value for each domain to the predetermined stakeholders of the SOA.

A computer program product of evaluating service oriented architecture (‘SOA’) governance maturity, the computer program product disposed in a signal bearing medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:

• receiving, from a plurality of predetermined stakeholders in the SOA for a plurality of SOA governance capabilities, a stakeholder assessed value representing the current maturity of each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities;
• determining, for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities in dependence upon the plurality of stakeholder assessed values from the stakeholders, a capability value for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities;
• assigning each of the SOA governance capabilities to a domain;
• determining, in dependence upon the capability values for each of the plurality of SOA governance capabilities of each domain, a domain maturity value for each domain;
• and
• communicating the domain maturity value for each domain to the predetermined stakeholders of the SOA.