Böcker utgivna av The Pragmatic Programmers

Your co-workers' resistance to new technologies can be baffling. Logical arguments can fail. If you don't do politics, you will fail. With _Driving Technical Change_, by Terrence Ryan, you'll learn to read users' "patterns of resistance"-and then dismantle their objections. Every developer must master the art of evangelizing.

You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in Seven Weeks? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby.

Helps to apply successful techniques from software engineering to identify what you should be doing today and to help you achieve your goals. This title also helps to learn to work less and accomplish more using nothing more than paper, pencil, and a simple kitchen timer.

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is about writing software that matters. It is an approach to agile software development that takes cues from Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test Driven Planning. This book introduces you to RSpec, Cucumber, and a number of other tools that make up the Ruby BDD family.

Shows how to coach your team to become more agile. This book lets you learn the secrets of running effective agile meetings and how to get your team following a consistent approach to creating software.

As a techie, you're a special breed, with special challenges facing you in the job search. You've got the background and skills to work the Web and other resources that the general job seeker doesn't. This book shows you how to take advantage of those skills or be left behind by competing techies who do.

Helps you learn how to build your software development career step by step, following the same path that you follow if you are building, marketing, and selling a product. This book also helps you learn how to assess your skills in terms of where they fit on value chain, driving you away from commodity skills and toward those that are in demand.

Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming. It offers an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work efficiently in our mobile society.

Shows you how to beg, borrow, and steal from the methodologies to fit your particular project. This book is a guide for projects that teaches you how to recognize your project's potholes and ruts, and determine the best way to fix problems without causing more problems.

This book presents proven, effective agile practices in the areas of development process, coding techniques, developer attitude, project and team management, and iterative and incremental learning. Readers can learn how to apply each practice, and what benefits you can expect.