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by William J. Brown (Author), Raphael C. Malveau (Author), Hays W. "Skip" McCormick (Author), Thomas J. Mowbray (Author) "AntiPatterns represent the latest concept in a series of revolutionary changes in computer science and software engineering thinking ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471197130
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471197133
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 198,355 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The AntiPatterns authors have clearly been there and done that when it comes to managing software development efforts. I resonated with one insight after another, having witnessed too many wayward projects myself. The experience in this book is palpable." –John Vlissides, IBM Research "This book allows managers, architects, and developers to learn from the painful mistakes of others. The high–level AntiPatterns on software architecture are a particularly valuable contribution to software engineering. Highly recommended!" –Kyle Brown Author of The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion "AntiPatterns continues the trend started in Design Patterns. The authors have discovered and named common problem situations resulting from poor management or architecture control, mistakes which most experienced practitioners will recognize. Should you find yourself with one of the AntiPatterns, they even provide some clues on how to get yourself out of the situation." –Gerard Meszaros, Chief Architect, Object Systems Group Are you headed into the software development mine field? Follow someone if you can, but if you′re on your own–better get the map! AntiPatterns is the map. This book helps you navigate through today′s dangerous software development projects. Just look at the statistics:
∗ Nearly one–third of all software projects are cancelled.
∗ Two–thirds of all software projects encounter cost overruns in excess of 200%.
∗ Over 80% of all software projects are deemed failures.
While patterns help you to identify and implement procedures, designs, and codes that work, AntiPatterns do the exact opposite; they let you zero–in on the development detonators, architectural tripwires, and personality booby traps that can spell doom for your project. Written by an all–star team of object–oriented systems developers, AntiPatterns identifies 40 of the most common AntiPatterns in the areas of software development, architecture, and project management. The authors then show you how to detect and defuse AntiPatterns as well as supply refactored solutions for each AntiPattern presented.

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Knowing when to apply patterns is critical.
AntiPatterns tries to help the practitioner identify when and how to apply a pattern by recognizing the symptoms of a bad pattern (AntiPattern). The refactored pattern deals with both the symptoms and the root cause. We use many recognized and successful patterns from the patterns community who have been very supportive in getting this book 'out the door'. We attempt to make the whole process fun and easy to use. This is just the start of AntiPatterns and we wish to get people energized in using them and developing new ones.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard Work and not worth the money, 13 Jan 2003
The patterns start in chapter five. Ignore the rest of the book on pain of absolute boredom. For example chapter two (32 pages) defines the keywords to be used in catagorising the patterns. Chapter three (9 pages) defines all the ways that patterns are ever written up, probably in order to justify changing it in this book. I notice that most or all the good reviews are by management and consultants, so maybe it works better for them, but I found the engineering antipatterns too few in number and too obvious in solution. Instead try Deathmarch Projects, Writing Solid Code, and Debugging the Development Process. They don't have the magic word "pattern" in the titles, but they're a lot more use.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable, usable guide to project management, 20 Aug 1999
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Perhaps the title of this book is unfortunate, given the fact that those who have posted bad reviews here seem to have expected it to be an extension of the GoF Design Patterns book. (In which case they would have been better off with the GoV A System of Patterns book.) All such expectations aside, however, this book is an enjoyable guide to project management that is well worth reading. As for the criticism that it is nothing more than common sense packaged as wisdom, I would argue that common sense is nothing more than applied wisdom, and the common sense this book aims to teach is sadly lacking in too many companies today (hence the existence and popularity of Dilbert).

BTW, the reviewer who attributed the quote, "there is nothing new under the sun" to Shakespeare might be amused, given the nature of the quote itself, to find that it was originally written by Solomon (in Ecclesiastes 1:9), quite some time prior to Shakespeare! There is nothing new, indeed.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!, 12 Aug 2001
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The material in this book is unbelievably superficial and reeks of the authors' pretentiousness. It is referenced frequently in the pattern literature, but don't go anywhere near it. If you think taking two pages to explain that confrontational e-mails are bad constitutes a 'pattern' then go right ahead. Otherwise, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
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After reading the reviews here on Amazon, I simply had to find out what it was about AntiPatterns that so polarized people.

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This is a great read. Almost every paragraph had me thinking back to some real-life incident. Funny as hell.
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2.0 out of 5 stars So So
This one is okay but far from great. Mowbray's books make a few good points but you have to wade through way too much fluff. Straight and to the point works best for me. Read more
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