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by Nicole Forsgren PhD (Author), Jez Humble (Author), Gene Kim (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Winner of the Shingo Publication Award

Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations.
Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance. This book is ideal for management at every level.

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"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

“'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

About the Author

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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07B9F83WM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ IT Revolution Press; 1st edition (March 27, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8594 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 289 pages

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Jez Humble is co-author of several books on software including Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and Jolt Award winner Continuous Delivery. He has spent his 20 year career in software tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents, including working for the US Federal Government’s 18F team as part of the Obama Tech Surge, and co-founding startup DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, which was acquired by Google in December 2018. He works for Google as a site reliability engineer, and teaches classes on agile software engineering and product management at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.
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Gene Kim
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Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40” list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.
He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife and family.
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Nicole Forsgren PhD
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Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. Nicole has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been featured in various media outlets, peer-reviewed journals, and conferences. She holds a PhD in management information systems and a master’s degree in accounting. Nicole is CEO and Chief Scientist at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA).
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M. Wilson

Buy Accelerate and begin your DevOps Transformation today--the whole company will thank you.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018

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I’ve lived in and consulted for many companies that would benefit from transforming their culture. If you are a leader in a company, and you 1) want to validate perceptions of company performance from the inside, and 2) want to continuously improve, read on.

“The most innovative companies and highest-performing organizations are always striving to be better. High performing companies have 46 times more frequent code deployments, 440 times faster lead time from commit to deploy, 170 times faster mean time to recover from downtime, and 5 times lower change failure rate (1/5 as likely for a change to fail).”

The reasons for embarking on this DevOps journey of acceleration and transformation are many. Leaders who want to realize this level of performance will get more loyalty and work out of their current people and attract awesome new ones. They will build better, more secure software--and a mature software delivery capability provides a competitive advantage to any business. This book provides evidence and research to back these assertions.

Accelerate offers clear and compelling guidance to begin this shift no matter a company’s current level of maturity, covering the spectrum of roles from leaders to doers, from coders to architects to managers. If you are pressed for time, chapters are focused and easy to consider in turn, and provide excellent implementations recommendations.

Leaders will be especially inspired by Part 3, a case study about a real Transformation. It all started by the willingness to change.

DevOps is a cultural movement that feeds value delivery and growth within an organization. If you are responsible for any aspect of building secure, resilient rapidly evolving distributed systems, buy this book! Read it on your next plane ride and begin your journey of differentiation and transformation with the inspirational and executable guidance it offers.

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Christopher Burton

Great insights on software delivery

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024

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Comprehensive review of DevOps techniques and approaches enabling vastly improved delivery of software functionality and quality. Parts are a little academic oriented, but lots of practical wisdom throughout.

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Maciej

Last chapter is very important!

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2023

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This book explains how important is culture. It emphasise communication, simplicity, rapid feedback, courage and respect - which happens to be an eXtreme Programming (XP).

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Lindsey K.

This book was excellent, I read it twice before reviewing

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018

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This book was excellent, I read it twice before reviewing. They scienced the crap out of DevOps and go to painstaking lengths to identify what can and should be measured, and what those predict. Very helpful if you are looking to baseline your DevOps capability and identify areas for improvement around key outcomes.

Fair warning though, the book doesn't go into detail on how the capabilities identified/measured work together, the correct combinations, or proper order. Recommend picking up Lean Enterprise and Continuous Delivery by Jez for that. So it's not that the authors are naive to this, it's just not the intent of this book. On the contrary I'd say they are very aware of what can be measured and what would be speculation--and this book is scoped to what they could measure.

With that in mind, it actually places appropriate limitations on the conclusions you can draw from their results--an atypical (but welcome) admission they make early on. They can only measure outcomes, not intents. So they show behaviors and how they correlate to outcomes, but warn the reader to understand the why behind those behaviors before trying to adopt them blindly. Basically a nice way of saying, "Don't be a #cargocult."

In Lean Enterprise, Jez and his co-authors make several recommendations on combinations and order, as well as the why behind each. I appreciate that this book only focuses on what can be measured--it provides a good baseline from which to look at my own organization's practices. But it does assume that the reader is familiar with DevOps and isn't looking to understand the why or the how.

I highly recommend this book.

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Steve Berczuk

Useful Information with Mixed Presentation

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2021

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Accelerate is a data based discussion of how technical practices relate to overall organizational performance. Neither technical practices, nor project management methodologies, nor management practices work in isolation and this book provides some evidence about how People Technology and Process interact to help delivery work. While I was familiar with the work, I took far to long to get around to reading the book.

The “data” behind the book is survey data. Fosgren and Humble surveyed a number of organizations and the data they present supports what I and others have observed anecdotally: technical practices play a key role in defining how an organization can deliver. Part one of the book presents the findings (which are summarized in an appendix) Part two explain the methodology and why the surveys can be considered useful objective data.

Over all, the book is a worthwhile, inspirational, read that also provides a foundation for introducing change. My only reservations are about the presentation. There is a bunch of great stuff in the book. But the connection between the parts is a bit disjointed, and different readers may find the book uneven. While the second part about methodology was interesting, it also felt like much of it could be relegated to an appendix. The third part of the book was a case study of organizational management, which was somewhat connected to the devops practices described in part one, but more focused on the role of management practices than dev ops ones than the impact of practices.

Process and team are deeply intertwined. And in team dynamics, the balance between objective and subjective measurements is hard to find. This book is a good first step in explaining how to measure what matters and how doing so can help you team. Just be prepared to skim parts of it at times.

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