Motivation
Ensure that a service is managed and governed sufficiently. An umanaged service can't be relied upon, and will not be successful.
Argumentation
If you are unable to find an owner for a service, chances are high that the service is unimportant which is not a good metric for success. Also if a service does not have an owner, there is no one to form a service level agreement with, thus no one can give any guarantees about the quality of the service or its service contract. The closer to the business departments you find the owner, the better chances for a successful service.
Exceptions/spesial cases
In general all services must have an owner, if they are to be included in a SOA-environment.
Definitions
In doubt..
PAB discussions
Responsibillity for the owner
- Ensure a high quality of the service: rollout patches and updates
- Perform changes to the service in collaboration with consumers with special requirements
Examples of good ownership candidates for each service type
H2A
- users - they have the natural incentive for enhancments
A2A
- business owners,
- product owners,
- marketing directors
ACS
- product owner
- data owner
- fallback: IT manager
CS
- data quality owners
- product owner
- data owner
- fallback: IT manager
Design-Time Governance - SOA Design Rules FAQ
- [Question still to be asked..]
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