Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices

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Summary: Book in two parts fails to excel at either
Review: This is really two books; one is on agile development. The other is on design pattern examples. Unfortunately, it fails to be really tremendous at either.

The agile development part lacks much of the pragmatism of more recently published books on agility, espousing principles quite nicely, but avoiding all of the tricky issues around larger teams, products where the architecture -- as well as the product itself -- is a deliverable, etc.

The design pattern examples were pretty reasonable, but there are already more comprehensive tomes available online for free. The examples provided were just large enough to obscure the reading of the patterns themsevles and inhibit browsing (unlike the GoF book, which treads that line quite nicely).