Title: Superb content, rebarbative style
Product review: The book is full of exciting ideas. It manages at once to challenge one's notions of what system development ought to be about, placing it in the context of the history of our field, and confirm what one's experience has (often painfully) taught. But cutting through the style to reach the content is such hard work. The altogether agonising alliteration has me -- from time to time -- physically chucking the book across the room. I suspect that the ambivalent nature of the reviews that have been submitted reflects this dichtomy.Yes, the book is well worth the effort. But a less facetious style would make the effort unnecessary.
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