SOA Governance Book
September 9th, 2008 by Todd Biske
I can finally let my secret out. For the past few months, I’ve been working on my first book, SOA Governance, and I’m now happy to say that it is available from my publisher, Packt Publishing. It can also be purchased from Amazon.
If you’ve followed this blog, you’ll know that my take on SOA governance is that it’s all about using people, policies, and process to achieve a desired behavior, and that same theme carries through the book, showing how it applies to all aspects of your SOA efforts, ranging from project governance, to run-time governance, and finally to what I call pre-project governance.
The style of the book is inspired by the great books of Patrick Lencioni, including Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Death by Meeting, and Silos, Politics and Turf Wars. In it, he presents a fable that illustrates the concepts and points. In my book, I present the story of a fictitious company, Advasco, and their journey in adopting SOA. Along the way, the book analyzes the actions of Advasco and the role of SOA governance in the journey.
Please check it out, and feel free to send me your feedback or questions. I hope it helps you in your SOA efforts.
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September 11th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
A huge accomplishment Todd. Congratulations! I look forward to getting my copy.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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September 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Congrats, Todd! Very much looking forward to reading it!
September 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[...] the upcoming publication of my SOA Governance book, which will be shamelessly plugged on this blog, you’ll be seeing more posts on SOA [...]
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
[...] and is expected to be available in October, though you can find out about pre-ordering here. Congratulations to [...]
September 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
[...] During my soapbox derby discussion at the SOA Consortium meeting, I chose to discuss SOA Governance, and I thought that one of the messages I delivered would be another appropriate post to highlight some of the content in my upcoming book. [...]
September 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Congratulations!
I hope the book will be available in my region (Middle East and Africa; precisely Egypt).
Good Luck. From reading your blog I am sure the book style is going to be (nice).
October 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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October 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
[...] all of my posts on SOA Governance, and in my SOA Governance book, I don’t think I’ve talked about decision rights once. While this was certainly [...]
October 10th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Please send me a sample chapter in PDF format.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:43 am
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October 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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October 20th, 2008 at 8:58 am
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October 20th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
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October 21st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
[...] SOA Governance” for InfoQ and it has now been published. It’s not a direct extract from my book, more of a short overview of a few of the key points from it. I hope you enjoy it, and if you want [...]
October 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am
[...] story reminded me of a key point in regards to SOA Governance. This blog and my book emphasize the role of policies in SOA Governance. There’s a risk, however. If we focus to [...]
October 29th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
[...] second factor, and certainly the more important one from a governance perspective, is the way information flows through your organization. If you are establishing a [...]
November 4th, 2008 at 8:06 am
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November 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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November 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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