Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Nicole Forsgren PhD (Author), Jez Humble (Author), Gene Kim (Author),

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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.

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4 hours and 58 minutes
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Nicole Forsgren PhD, see all
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Nicole Forsgren
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28 March 2018
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English
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IT Revolution Press
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B07BMB9YY2
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Listening Length	4 hours and 58 minutes
Author	Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Narrator	Nicole Forsgren
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	28 March 2018
Publisher	IT Revolution Press
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07BMB9YY2
Best Sellers Rank	10,435 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 8 in Business Operations Research (Books) 14 in Software Development (Audible Books & Originals) 15 in Business Information Management

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David Smart

Fairly dull book

Reviewed in Australia on 9 December 2021

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I didn’t find it a compelling read given the existing literature on CD, DevOps, and transformation. It’s largely focused on explaining how the research supports everything we already know.

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Brought as a birthday present

Reviewed in Australia on 21 November 2020

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Brought as a birthday present

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Important research and findings.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 November 2019

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Great source of data and material on the benefits of modern software practices. Useful for my research in leadership fields.

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Great insight into devops teams

Reviewed in Australia on 21 September 2019

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Good for: a scientific look at the metrics and techniques used by high performing teams.

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Tim Daniell

Great book based on facts rather than opinions

Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2020

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Must read for anyone working in the software development field.

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Martin Chesbrough

Must read for delivering business value

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2018

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This is a must read book for anyone seeking to accelerate change and deliver business value

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Mr Terry Cleary

Basic and padded overviews

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2018

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This book uses child size fonts. The book feels weighty but it's highly padded. I feel it's padded for a simple reason. It's not that in-depth and much of what is stated is simple or rather obvious; or is far better explained with detail and context in Amazon and Microsoft White papers. I was recommended this book and I have and rate the lean series but this book is poor in my view. Too little depth, too fluffy and too expensive overall.

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C. Dunn

Good practices bought together but nothing revolutionary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2018

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I’m a software and found this book was too high level, I guess I was expected something offering real practical advice and real world experience, especially having read the fantastic continuous delivery. This book is a summary of why things like automated testing and continuous integration are sound practices but this is already preaching to the converted.

It had some new pieces of advice and guidance for me, and I especially like how it brings all together the best and well established practices, but generally it didn’t offer me much, but maybe I’m not the intended audience? This would be a great book if you were a struggling CTO or someone stuck in the old ways of manual testing etc. If you run a failing IT company or department then by all means read this, but to the established folks already doing the right things then pick this up 2nd hand on the cheap.

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Gerald Dunn

If you want an introduction to DevOps....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2021

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Why do I like this book and why do I think it is worthy of reading, reviewing and recommending ahead of a host of other books on DevOps?

1. It is short enough and accessible enough to be reasonably recommended to and consumed by a range of roles outside of the technology function.
2. It is written by and recommended by a number of people who clearly know their onions: Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren and Gene Kim are all multipublished, award winning authors who have been involved in the State of DevOps survey for an extended period of time. Martin Fowler (who writes a forward) is one of the founding fathers of Agile and has written profoundly on many aspects of the programming craft
3. It seeks to justify its assertions with a range of quantitative methods which are pitched at the right level…you could use these ideas both to structure a business case and as a measurement framework to report against it.
4. It explores a range of technical, organizational, managerial and cultural aspects that combine to provide a step change in software development capability. It isolates atomic drivers of improvement. It describes positive and negative feedback loops to be aware of.
5. It connects those ideas into a coherent programme and suggests how you might go about adoption.

Apart from all of the practical ideas and the way it connects them I think the most interesting thought it left me with was this. Not only is high performance in the technology space going to offer a key differentiator for businesses in the future but that high performing technology function can be a catalyst to a high performing organization full stop.

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AnonymousReviewerOfStuff

Redefining software development

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2018

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A must read book.

It's a study of thousands of companies, the development practices they use and whether they succeed or not.

It's the closest thing I've seen to evidence that doing things the "right" way is a key contributor to business success. Teams that deploy more often have better success. Organizations that are safe to work in (where you can raise concerns without fear of being fired) have better success.

Read it!

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Essential reading for anyone involved in software development.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2021

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An easily digestible summary of the huge amount of research carried out by Forsgren et al. If you are involved in the leadership of software development teams this will arm you with the evidence that you need to understand how and where you can help them improve. Inspirational and convincing, while there may be nothing new here for those who are already on a devops journey, it is a compelling summary of why that journey is important.

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