Congratulations to Johanna Rothman and Michael T. Nygard for winning two Jolt Productivity Awards at the 18th annual awards ceremony.

Mike’s book, Release It: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software is all about designing your system for the real world. Did you design your system to survive a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 different countries? Are you ready for a world filled with flakey networks, tangled databases, and impatient users?

If you’re a developer and don’t want to be on call at 3AM for the rest of your life, this book will help you

Johanna’s latest, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management shows you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the best methodologies to fit your particular project. It will help you find what works best for you, and not for some mythological project that doesn’t even exist.

You won’t need expensive tools or fancy software. Manage It! shows you how to use low-tech techniques to directly address the most pressing problems of modern software project development.

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Andy Hunt
www.PragProg.com