Pragmatic Bookshelf imprint: 111 books
Agile Retrospectives
Making Good Teams Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2006
Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to...
by Terence Parr
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Programmers run into parsing problems all the time. Whether it's a data format like JSON, a network protocol like SMTP, a server configuration file for Apache, a PostScript/PDF file, or a simple spreadsheet macro language--ANTLR v4 and this book will demystify the process. ANTLR v4 has been rewritten...
Practical Vim
Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality...
Fire in the Valley
The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own...
Real-World Kanban
Do Less, Accomplish More with Lean Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. You're not sure what your teammates are working on, and management isn't helping. If your team is struggling with any of these symptoms, these four case studies will guide you to project success. See how Kanban was used to significantly improve time to...
Creating Great Teams
How Self-Selection Lets People Excel
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. Build well-designed and efficient teams to get the most out of your organization, with step-by-step instructions on how to set up teams quickly and efficiently....
by Johanna Rothman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
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Do you want to hire great people? Not sure how? Read this book.
Knowledge workers -- your geeks -- are different from skill-based staff. So, you should hire them differently. You need to analyze your situation, determine the problems you have, understand your culture, and then...
Manage Your Project Portfolio
Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
You have too many projects, and firefighting and multitasking are keeping you from finishing any of them. You need to manage your project portfolio. This fully updated and expanded bestseller arms you with agile and lean ways to collect all your work and decide which projects you should do first,...
Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
The Easy Way to Do More in Less Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Printed in full color.
Do you ever look at the clock and wonder where the day went? You spent all this time at work and didn't come close to getting everything done. Tomorrow try something new. Use the Pomodoro Technique to work in focused sprints throughout the day. In Pomodoro Technique Illustrated,...
Design It!
From Programmer to Software Architect
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Don't engineer by coincidence-design it like you mean it! Filled with practical techniques, Design It! is the perfect introduction to software architecture for programmers who are ready to grow their design skills. Lead your team as a software architect, ask the right stakeholders the right questions,...
Lean from the Trenches
Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is illustrated with a photo or diagram,...
Liftoff
Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ready, set, liftoff! Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Learn new insights and techniques for starting projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. Real-life stories illustrate how others have effectively started...
Node.js 8 the Right Way
Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Node.js is the platform of choice for creating modern web services. This fast-paced book gets you up to speed on server-side programming with Node.js 8, as you develop real programs that are small, fast, low-profile, and useful. Take JavaScript beyond the browser, explore dynamic language features,...
Modern Vim
Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Turn Vim into a full-blown development environment using Vim 8's new features and this sequel to the beloved bestseller Practical Vim. Integrate your editor with tools for building, testing, linting, indexing, and searching your codebase. Discover the future of Vim with Neovim: a fork of Vim that...