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.

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

Only if you have nothing else to do

Initially i sat down with an expectation of acquiring knowledge mentioned in the title of the book. I realized that this knowledge, at least partially, is in the book... hidden among unnecessary many and long explanatory phrases written in a schoolwork style, and performed/read in a monotone way.

13 people found this helpful

Amazing book, not audiobook

This book is not for an audiobook. Also the narration is quite distracting jumping into foot notes and diagrams.

8 people found this helpful

A businessy version of the DevOps Handbook

Perhaps all these authors wanted to do was to rehash the ideas of The DevOps Handbook with a more managerial spin. If that was their goal, then mission accomplished. This book had all of the personnel-focus that The DevOps Handbook had without any of the enlightening tech discussions.

I would recommend this book to managers looking to get an idea of how Lean could apply to their organizations without having to dive into much technical detail. I would not recommend this book for techies looking for a blend between deploying tech and how it relates to business success/failure. For the second, I would recommend The DevOps Handbook.

5 people found this helpful

Cant stand the unhealthy breathing

I'm not sure why I noticed this but every sentence is followed by a loud inhale of air. I will just need to get a hard copy to read. It's so pronounced.

17 people found this helpful

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.

3 people found this helpful

The most awful Voice ever

Very good book destroyed by a terrible reader! Destroyed the whole listening experience
A big shame, I had to stop listening

8 people found this helpful

Rich Book on devops

I would recommend this book to anyone who are looking for a rich book on DevOps and more.

The narration starts with a bit to long breaks between sentences but improves in quality eventually.

3 people found this helpful

Don't listen to this book

I think the information is great, this is a good book, but without looking at the statistics, charts and numbers, the book is mostly lost. BUY the book, don't buy the audio.

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.

Good for agile leaders with some experience

Good book. A lot of useful information in one place with nice conclusion and summary. Statistics are mixed with other relevant information in such a way that book is not boring considering that contains a lot of statistics. Nice book for leaders in agile.

This should not be an audio book.

This book may haves merits but they are completely lost in the audio book. You cannot follow or learn from this without the book also to hand which defeats the purpose.

5 people found this helpful

disappointed

I have enjoyed reading Humble and Fowler before and learnt from them.

This book is going to tell you that the status quo in development is correct. It will not tell you why or give you any useful insights on how to improve. There are no facts in this book. It just says "research has shown...". It will tell you not why or how conclusions are reached. It is jargon heavy and boring. I am up to date in technology and struggled to find any new challenging ideas or even any evidence for their ideas that I am generally following already. I am not sure who is the target audience for this book, I would not recommend it to anyone interested in dev ops or technology.

I narrator is not as aweful as the content. I wish that I can get a refund.

2 people found this helpful

No images to see the charts :(

The book is great but the lack of images from the book makes it impossible to follow...

4 people found this helpful

Content is good but difficult to absorb as an audio book

The content is very interesting and having one of the authors read it is great but I just found the subject matter difficult to absorb as an audiobook and ended up buying it as a paperback instead.

1 person found this helpful

Good insights

Easy to read. Easy to understand. Theoretical and practical. Very useful in practice as well

It's like a bible for all people involved in IT

Brilliant book.
Even though might be difficult to listen descriptions of diagrams it does not really matter.
Just skip those diagrams you won't lose much. However I strongly recommend to check out attached pdf

Narration is too fast

Cannot listen to this book, narration is way too fast. Trying .75 speed. Will update review if I can get along with it.

Actionable and exceptionally structured

Culture eats strategy for breakfast and behaviours form culture. This book ties together behaviours for high performance teams and feels very complete.

I am grateful for the research summary to better understand the design process of the book, which makes it less anecdotal.

The quantitive approach reflects well in the highly structured narrative. This is an exceptional book and a must read for those who shape IT strategy.

A well presented guide to DevOps implementation

Well researched topic with many real world applications and a good roadmap for implementing DevOps within a team or organisation. The narrator, being one of the authors, brings added enthusiasm and humor to the performance.

There’s gold but you have to dig

There is gold in this book but it takes a while to grip as focussed a little too much on the process of the survey and methodology at both the beginning and the end of the book. The middle is gold especially for IT leaders. So persevere.