Accelerate – Jez Humble

“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 who has.” — Thomas A. Limoncelli, coauthor of The Practice of Cloud System Administration “‘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 behaviors 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 organization design this is manna from heaven! As chapter 3 concludes: ‘You can act your way to a better culture by implementing these practices in technology organizations’ [emphasis mine].

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 organization people want to work at. I will be giving copies of this book to all my clients.” — Dan North, independent technology and organization consultant “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 of Clarity First and The Outstanding Organization “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 looking for patterns and practices that can deliver the same predictable and reliable results whilst minimising waste and producing the increasingly high performance our businesses demand.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

Book Information

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• File Extension: .pdf
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• Title: –
• Author: Unknown
• ISBN: 9781942788331
• Pages: 295
• Language: English (en)

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