The Pragmatic Bookshelf^TM

Our Pragmatic Bookshelf publishes award-winning, practical books for pragmatic programmers at all levels to help ensure that your project becomes a success, not a statistic. Pragmatic Bookshelf titles are available by calling 800-699-7764, directly from the publisher (we offer volume discounts), and in bookstores worldwide.

For more information on our books, please visit www.PragmaticBookshelf.com. Read some of the many reviews around the web (and around the world!).

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Pragmatic Workshops and Briefings

A workshop or briefing is the best way to get an entire team up and running in a pragmatic direction. We offer a number of workshops and briefings, including our flagship Introduction to Pragmatic Programming^TM.

Pragmatic Consulting

The Pragmatic Programmers^TM are available to help your team through mentoring, consulting, and just plain old programming. We continue to develop software for clients both large and small, in a variety of modern programming languages and environments.

If your project needs a Pragmatic touch, or if you just need to get your project done without excuses, please contact us.

Why "Pragmatic Programming^TM?"

Bad software and inappropriate development practices burn up time, money, customers, and careers -- about $60 billion a year worth. It's time we get some of that money back.

Here's how we can help you:

• The Pragmatic Starter Kit: Best practices. You know you should do them. This series tells you how, simply and clearly.
• The Introduction to Pragmatic Programming^TM workshop and other on-site briefings bring our material to life, and prepares the entire team to enjoy the benefits of Pragmatic Programming.
• Our best-selling book, The Pragmatic Programmer, continues to help improve individual developer practices.
• Our popular articles and papers help clarify and expand the real-world, pragmatic practices needed for modern software development.
• We co-wrote the Agile Manifesto, which is at the center of the next wave of software development (featured in The Economist, Software Development Magazine, etc.).
• We contribute to the Open Source community by investing in the Ruby programming language and other worthy projects.

Navigating this site...

If you are interested in our books, head on over to the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

If you are a software developer, you may want to start in our developer's section, where you'll find links to our books, talks, and other programming resources.

For project managers and team leads, you may want to start on our manager's page.

Educators and venture capitalists have their own starting pages as well.

If you're having a hard time finding something, try our search facility over on the left, or just contact us.