AGSOA - Agile Governance for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems: A Methodology to Deliver 21st Century Military Net-Centric Systems of Systems

Abstract

This paper describes AGSOA, an agile governance for service oriented architectures (SOAs) that is intended to address many of the inherent challenges faced by implementing the DoD's 21s' Century agile net-centric warfare systems using SOAs. The complex interdependencies within SOA-based systems, when combined with DoD's desired agile change capabilities, creates a very complex and open-ended system of systems environment that cannot simply modeled, simulated, verified and/or validated. The AGSOA framework is designed to blend elements of proven agile- style project management methodologies with contemporary SOA governance strategies used in other, less complex industries to yield a more appropriate governance strategy for life- and mission-critical DoD SOA projects.