Patent ID: 8694356

Claim:
A method of augmenting service oriented architecture (‘SOA’) governance maturity, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more modules of automated computing machinery in an SOA governance maturity augmentation system, an evaluation of the maturity of the governance of the SOA wherein the maturity of the governance of the SOA represents an indication of the degree of development, experience, and reliability of the governance of the SOA; identifying, by one or more modules of automated computing machinery in the SOA governance maturity augmentation system, for each governance capability in dependence upon the evaluation of the maturity of the governance capability, one or more predefined risks to the SOA; establishing, by one or more modules of automated computing machinery in the SOA governance maturity augmentation system, for each governance capability in dependence upon the predefined risks to the SOA, a risk value representing the severity of the predefined risks; selecting, by one or more modules of automated computing machinery in the SOA governance maturity augmentation system, for each governance capability in dependence upon the evaluation of the maturity of the governance of the SOA and the predefined risk value, one or more governance work products; communicating, by one or more modules of automated computing machinery in the SOA governance maturity augmentation system, to predetermined stakeholders in the SOA the one or more predefined risks to the SOA identified for each governance capability, the risk value established for each governance capability, and the governance work products selected for each governance capability.