Reviews for SOA Governance

1. A really solid and practical book

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, November 12th, 2008

   SOA Governance is a very good book indeed, in that it does something that so many technology and business management books fail to do: it breaks a complex and hype-laden subject down into very manageable chunks, and walks through the topic clearly and at a steady pace - but it still manages to move quickly enough to prevent the reader getting bored. It's not a perfect(*) book, but then nothing is - and if it had been, I would have been too jealous to write this. We need more technology/business management books like this, and we needed just such a book on SOA Governance.
   
   (*) one thing I found rather strange was that despite a word at the front to reassure readers that they didn't need to know any technology detail in order to read the book, at a number of points you're suddenly confronted, out of nowhere, by XML fragments which (as far as I could tell) didn't really add any value. That's a tiny niggle though.