THE DORSET HOUSE QUARTERLY VOL. XIV NO. 1 SUMMER 2004 DORSET HOUSE PUBLISHING 353 WEST 12TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10014 USA Greetings DHQ As we approach our 20th anniversary in December, we take pride in what’s shaping up to be our most prolific year DHQ EXCERPT ever. As we describe below and on page 6, we’ve added three books to our forthcoming titles list. Be sure to subscribe to e-DHQ for updates as we release these titles in Agility and Largeness the coming months—just e-mail
[email protected]. DeMarco and Lister by Jutta Eckstein Waltz Away with a Adapted from Chapter 1 of Jolt Award for Best Book Agile Software Development in the Large: In a ceremony at the SD West conference in Santa Clara, California, Tom DeMarco Diving Into the Deep and Timothy Lister’s Waltzing with Bears: ISBN: 0-932633-57-9 ©2004 Managing Risk on Software Projects was 248 pages softcover $39.95 postpaid awarded the Jolt Product Excellence Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister cele- Award for best general-interest book. brate their Jolt Award for best book. gile processes promise to react flexibly to continuously The Jolt Awards are presented every year to products changing requirements. That is why agile processes are that have boosted the productivity of software profes- Acurrently treated as a panacea for successful software sionals. Tim Lister was present to receive the award, a can development. However, agile processes are almost always of Jolt cola ensconced in a lucite cube. Out of just six final- recommended for small projects and small teams only—bad ists for the award, another Dorset news for those large teams that have to deal with speedy House release was honored: Five Core requirements changes.