The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim
Praise for this book
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 Cockcroft, VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture, Amazon
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. Anyone that doesn’t read this book will be replaced by someone that has.
Thomas Limoncelli, Co-Author of The Practice of Cloud System Administration
Accelerate summarizes the best metrics, practices, and principles to use for improving software delivery and digital product performance, based on years of well-documented research. 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 Poppendieck & Mary Poppendieck, Authors of the Lean Software Development Series of Books
Whether they recognize it or not, most organizations today are in the business of software development in one way, shape, or form. And most are being dragged down by slow lead times, buggy output, and complicated features that add expense and frustrate users. It doesn’t need to be this way. Forsgren, Humble and Kim shine a compelling light on the what, why, and how of DevOps so you, too, can experience what outstanding looks and feels like.
Karen Martin, Author, Clarity First and The Outstanding Organization
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.
What's inside
Groundbreaking Research — Using rigid statistical methods to measure software performance and what drives it, this book reveals the how and the why behind successful technology practices. The famously dubbed DORA metrics.
Award-Winning — Winner of the Shingo Institute Publication Award for advancing new knowledge and understanding of lean and operational excellence.
Expert Authors — Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim are three of the top researchers and thinkers in the technology industry today, this book reflects their combined deep knowledge and expertise.
All Managers — Managers at every level will discover how to measure and evaluate performance and what capabilities to invest in to drive higher performance.
Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.
Jez Humble is an award-winning author and researcher on software who has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in organizations of varying sizes across three continents, most recently working for the US government at 18F. He teaches at UC Berkeley, and is CTO of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC.
Gene KimFounder, Author, Researcher, IT Revolution▼▲
Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. His books have sold over 1 million copies—he is the WSJ bestselling author of The Unicorn Project and The Phoenix Project Graphic Novels , and co-author of The Phoenix Project , The DevOps Handbook , Vibe Coding , and the Shingo Publication Award-winning books Accelerate and Wiring the Winning Organization . Since 2014, he has been the organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit (now Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit and Enterprise AI Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
