Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Narrated by: Nicole Forsgren

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

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 listeners to apply in their own organizations.

Listeners 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim (P)2018 Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

Efficient book w general and somewhat obvious but solid conclusions

Great if you need to convince your org to change.
Narration was not professional. Word annunciation falls apart if you listen beyond 1.75x. Even that speed is pushing it. Tone and rhythm very homogenous.

Not well-suited to audio

The content is, as with most Kim & Humble material, valuable but technical enough to benefit from being able to read as well as listen.

Very positive and useful material.

Swallowed it raw - a big fan.

I am relatively new to the devops movement. I got hooked by Jez Humble's and Nicole Forsgreen talks, one when attending Jenkins World 2017, the second a talk at CPH-CODE. I was recommended to read The phoenix project from Gene Kim, which i did and when I heard about this book it was a no brainer. Highly recommendable.

Uses terminology Without Defining. BAD Narration

This book contains useful data for software development professional. Unfortunately, the author repeatedly uses terminology and acronyms that even veteran software developers and development managers won't know -- and doesn't define the unknown terms making the book hard to understand and often confusing. The narration is monotonous, robotic, humorless, hard-to-understand, overly-fast and boring -- only slightly better than my Kindle Fire's computer-generated narration. This book should definitely be renarrated by a more skilled voice actor.

Great Book for your Digital Transformation

Love the ideas delivered in this book for businesses. it is a little hard to follow without a copy of the book for images in Audible format only, but still a great book.

Excellent

It was fascinating hearing the science and insights from the State of DevOps reports. Getting great use from the information already. #ModernWorkplace #DevOps #Culture #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

A Compelling Case for DevSecOps

Well researched book describing practices and metrics to catapult software teams to engineering, product and business delivery excellence!

If your craft is software engineering - this is a must read.

Best book I have read so far

it gives a clear picture of how software delivery impacts organization performance and how to measure and improve IT performance. Loved it!

Good science except for the race baiting

There have been many times in my career where I felt the way we did things was wrong, but didn't have the data to prove it. This book goes through the promises from devops and quantifies them, sometimes in surprising ways. A great analysis of what to do to become an effective IT company (hint: young startup vs old bank makes 0 difference).

The one let-down was their coverage of "diversity". Forsgren is very light-handed and careful with her recommendations throughout the book, but at the end somehow dives headfirst into a non-sensical command to "hire more women and minorities and everything will get better". With her other points she shows a clear causal link, whereas here the waters are murky, and yet she's somehow at her most fervent despite this.

Don't discard the book over this, some of the greats of our time (such as Brene Brown, a favourite of mine) have been sucked into the promise of "diversity" fixing everything, even if it means attending crowded protests in the middle of a pandemic. This is a great book, just don't be surprised when it goes south in the final chapter.

Great book for any IT org and/or SW Company

Loved the way the high performance objectives/goals were presented early on and then The rest of the book was about explaining how they were arrived at.

Additional the marriage of org design and culture and how important those are to high performing teams — was excelent