Accelerate — Audiobook Supplement

Affiliation as of 2026-09-07

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.

Talks by Nicole

22 min

DevEx Essentials: Igniting Change, Delivering Results

Las Vegas 2023

15 min

DevOps and the Bottom Line

San Francisco 2014

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Affiliation as of 2026-07-24

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.

Talks by JezAll 4 →

32 min

The Data Behind DevOps - Becoming a High Performer

Las Vegas 2018

31 min

DevOps: The Key to High Performance (What the Data Says)

London 2017

25 min

What We Learned from the 2016 State of DevOps Report

San Francisco 2016

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Affiliation as of 2026-08-31

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.

Talks by GeneAll 67 →

22 min

State of AI-assisted Software Development: 2025 DORA Report

Las Vegas 2025

21 min

Rewiring The Engineering and Product Organization to Deliver A Customer Support GenAI Service

Connect Feb 2025

21 min

Further Results of Our 500-Person GenAI and Developer Pilot

Connect Feb 2025

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