Author: Gerard Blokdijk
Publisher: Unknown
Year: 2008
Amazon: UK, US
Review in a Nutshell
No.Review in detail
This is a travesty. Described under the product description as:Learn Configuration and CMDB management the right way with this unique, thoroughly modern guide to today's Configuration Management challenges and opportunities. Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this book goes beyond concepts and definitions to challenge prevalent thinking about the field and provide a step-by-step guide to implementing a successful CMDB strategy. Discover how to move beyond mainstream analysis, why qualitative data should be your focus, and more insights and techniques that will help you develop a customer-centric mindset without sacrificing your company's bottom line. You have more information at hand about your Configuration and its business environment than ever before. But are you using it to "out-think" your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.This, and I use the term loosely, book is little more than a set of Powerpoint slides with some annotations. There are some extended notes in the second half of the book, but these do little more than reiterate ITIL v3. This is, without doubt, the worst book I have read to date (not just the worst book on the CMDB, the worst period). At £15 ($30) this book is massively overpriced.
This book looks to me as if it has been written as an accompaniment to a training course, not as a standalone book.
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