We didn’t take the cake, but we got a nice runner up prize.

BOOKS GENERAL
Jolt Winner: Prefactoring by Ken Pugh (O’Reilly)

Productivity Winners:

• Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy by Goldman, Gabriel
• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Fogel (O’Reilly)
• The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun (O’Reilly)

Here’s the full list of award winners . Quite the day for the O’Reilly folks.

As happy as us productivity (aka runner-up) award winners are, we all have to shake our heads on two counts: how did a book on prefactoring not get put in the technical category? And how did it kick the ass of five books on bigger and broader topics? Kudos to Ken Pugh – he’s got a Seabiscut of a book :) Kicked our butts.