Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole's work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University. She lives in San Francisco, CA.
Jez Humble is co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Delivery. He is currently researching how to build high performing teams at his startup, DevOps Research and Assessment, LLC, and teaching at UC Berkeley. He lives in California.
Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and co-author of The Phoenix Project, Beyond The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and The Visible Ops Handbook. He is founder of IT Revolution, hosts the DevOps Enterprise Summit conferences, and speaks around the world. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife and children.
"We strongly recommend this book to anyone involved in a digital
transformation for solid guidance about what works, what doesn't
work, and what doesn't matter."
*Tom & Mary Poppendieck, Authors of the Lean Software Development
Series*
"A must read! In a sea of books about technology approaches,
Accelerate stands out in its clarity and practicality."
*Karen Martin, Author, Clarity First and The Outstanding
Organization*
"Excellent! As well as conclusively showing that DevOps outcomes
are faster, cheaper AND safer, this book is an excellent case study
for robust survey design and analysis."
*Adrian Cockroft*
"This is the kind of foresight that CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs
desperately need if their company is going to survive in this new
software-centric world.Anyone that doesn't read this book will be
replaced by someone that has."
*Thomas A. Limoncelli, Co-Author of The Practice of Cloud System
Administration*
“'Here, do this!' The evidence presented in Accelerate is a triumph
of research, tenacity and insight, proving not just correlation but
a causal link between good technical and management behaviours and
business performance. It also exposes the myth of “maturity models”
and offers a realistic, actionable alternative. As an independent
consultant working at the intersection of people, technology,
process, and organisation design this is manna from heaven!As
chapter 3 concludes: 'You can act your way to a better culture
through implementing these practices in technology organizations'.
There is no mystical culture magic, just 24 concrete, specific
capabilities that will lead not only to better business results,
but more importantly to happier, healthier, more motivated people
and an organisation people want to work at. I will be giving copies
of this book to all my clients."
*Dan North, Independent Technology and Organization consultant*
"The 'art' of constructing a building is a well understood
engineering practice nowadays. However, in the software world, we
have been been looking for patterns and practices that can deliver
the same predictable and reliable results whilst minimizing waste
and producing the increasingly high performance our businesses
demand.Accelerate provides research backed, quantifiable and real
world principles to create world class, high performing IT teams
enabling amazing business outcomes.Backed by the two leading
thought leaders (Kim and Humble) in the DevOps community and world
class research from PHD Forsgren, this book is a highly recommended
asset!"
*Jonathan Fletcher, Group CTO, Hiscox*
"In their book Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim
don't break any new conceptual ground regarding agile, lean and
DevOps. Instead, they provide something that might be even more
valuable which is a look inside the methodological rigor of their
data collection and analysis approach which lead them to their
earlier conclusions on the key capabilities that make IT
organizations better contributors to the business. This is a book
that I will gladly be placing on my bookshelf next to the other
great works by the authors."
*Cameron Haight, VP & CTO, Americas, VMware*
"Accelerate does a fantastic job of explaining not only what
changes organizations should make to improve their software
delivery performance, but also the why, enabling people at all
levels to truly understand how to level up their
organizations."
*Ryn Daniels, Infrastructure Operations Engineer at Travis CI and
author of Effective DevOps*
"With this work, the authors have made a significant contribution
to the understanding and application of DevOps. They show that when
properly understood, DevOps is more than just a fad or a new name
for an old concept. Their work illustrates how DevOps can improve
the state of the art in organizational design, software development
culture, and systems architecture. And beyond merely showing, they
advance the DevOps community's qualitative findings with
research-based insights that I have heard from no other
source."
*Baron Schwartz, Founder & CEO of VividCortex and Co-Author of High
Performance MySQL*
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