The patterns are written in the well-known Alexandrian form, whose roots in architecture and design have enjoyed broad application in the software world. The form organizes each pattern so you can navigate directly to organizational design tradeoffs or jump to the solution or rationale that makes the solution work. The patterns flow together naturally through the context sections at their beginning and end.
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Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (about 100,000 copies sold), and other titles. He holds a PhD in Medicine.
James O. Coplien was an early influencer of Scrum, a co-founder of the Hillside Group (the software pattern movement) and co-author of Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development, Advanced C++ (70,000 copies sold), and several other titles. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy and a PhD in Computer Science.