- Author :
- Todd Biske
- Publisher :
- Packt Publishing
SOA Governance book was good introduction into governance topic and how governance is and has to be connected into Service Oriented Architecture.
Mr. Todd Biske (http://www.biske.com/blog/), author of the book, showed the evolution of the SOA and SAO governance on the virtual company “Advasco”. He showed how the company was driven for “SOA thinking” and how and why company needed SOA governance. Having virtual actors as employees of the company we could feel the problematic when reading dialogs of them. It was very helpful while reading such dialogs, so the reader could imagine from practical perspective what is the problem and how problem should be understood and resolved. It’s easy to remember the SOA governance concepts from this book because it shows life problems on virtual company “Advasco”.
The governance exists always, at least some kind of, but having effective governance and understand it is the goal of this book. The book showed and explained the SOA governance from its basic. The book is much suggested when starting with SOA governance. It’s suggested for all personnel who need to have feeling and understand governance from it’s concept. It is not detailed technical technology overview about governance technologies. But instead it shows relations, timeframes, and aspects of SOA governance from all perspective within enterprise. Especially “Chapter 8, Establishing SOA Governance at Your Organization” is some kind of agnostic references for SOA governance regardless any vendor, technology, enterprise type.
This book is a must-have for all IT managers, architects, PMs and business analysts dealing with SOA issues, be they implementation, governance, or both. I also highly recommend this book for those who are starting or facing IT governance issues in general, even if they aren’t contemplating or building-out an SOA at present - the governance principles, techniques, and advice Todd gives apply to much more than SOA.
This book will definitely meet expectation for readers looking for understanding SAO governance concepts and principles. This book is not about hardly reading big topic and hardly consuming it. But Mr. Toad Biske successfully separated concerns in this book into small parts so reader will not get bored or tired with many theoretic structures. On above 200 pages reader get very familiar with SOA governance concepts. It does not go too deep into specific problem but instead it shows overall picture.