HELP, when I tried to review the book, specifically looking for the PDF format as you mentioned above, I cannot locate. Any help is appreciated

The PDF format is here:
http://easycomp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~jcoplien/HarrisonCoplien.pdf

Enjoy!

Darrell, thanks for the pointer, I have printed it (more dead trees) as it looks like a good read.

Have you ever read "The Mythical Man-Month"? I read it last year, thought it was great. Hoping for more good stuff from Harrison Coplien.

Thomas - yeah the "Mythical Man-Month" is a classic!

Hi, folks! I'm glad you ran into this. If you're interested (but time
is short) we'll be running a tutorial on this topic at OOPSLA in a
couple of weeks.

Neil and I are really proud of this book, because it's one of the
first topically-oriented community-wide efforts to collect patterns
from multiple authors. We combined our patterns with those of
Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Steve Berczuk, and Brian
Foote, while building on the work of many other pattern writers,
to create what is truly an edited work. We're also proud because
of its foundational content: this stuff is the original platform
beneath SCRUM, XP, and Agile. As Michael Beedle said in his
Amazon review, it's "the first documentation that ever existed
on true Agile development." We need that very badly as an
industry.

FWIW, the PDF on the web site is about a year old. The book itself
is more up-to-date, which is one advantage of having the book;
the other is that it has a good index. The pictures in the book,
which Neil picked out, are of high quality. So though it's a good
quality guide to improving your organization, it doubles as a
coffee-table book and conversation piece :-)

If you're interested in more information on organizational patterns,
don't hesitate to contact me at JOCoplien@cs.com.

-- Cope