Governance and Silo's

I read an article about governance and silos which I found interesting. The analyst was of the view that organisations were recreating new silos of governance rather than applying successful governance styles that are already proven.

In the article they use the example of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA):

"Well, SOA, for instance. If you look at an SOA project, it’s often defined by an elite group of architects and developers who are benefiting from all the lessons of 20 years of iterative development and they then develop their own processes, almost in this little vacuum.

Theoretically, a lot of organisations really have a lack of governance in their software development processes, but even if there is a lack of governance, there is some governance there. With the SOA lifecycle, we’ve actually spent a great deal of energy defining the stages of it and while they're parallel to what should be the SDLC - the software development lifecycle - very often they're instituted by a separate group and it’s kind of like parallel lives. So, in effect, we’re creating an additional layer of governance. Just what we need when IT organisations are trying to simplify lives for themselves."