Book
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Summary
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim turn several years of survey data from thousands of organizations into four measures of software delivery performance: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, and change failure rate. Chapters on measuring performance and measuring culture build the statistical case; chapters on technical practices, architecture, and integrating security into the delivery lifecycle connect that measurement to the practices that move it, and chapters on management, product development, and sustainable work extend it into how organizations are run. A closing block covering psychometrics, survey design, and the study's underlying data lays out the research methodology itself, so readers can weigh the evidence rather than take the book's central claim — that speed and stability are not a trade-off — on faith.
Target Readers
- Technical leaders who want statistical evidence, not just case studies, that DevOps practices improve organizational performance
- Engineers who need data to justify continued investment in test automation and continuous delivery to leadership
- Readers of The DevOps Handbook or Continuous Delivery who want to see the research behind the practices those books recommend
Tags
Colophon
- Publisher
- Impress
- ISBN
- 978-4295004905
- Published
- Nov 2018
- List price
- ¥3,080incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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Prerequisites
- Recommended
The DevOps Handbook
How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
Reason: Once you adopt practices, you want to measure whether they actually work. 'Accelerate' provides the scientific basis—grounded in DORA research—to quantify organizational performance via four metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore.
- Recommended
Continuous Delivery
Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
Jez Humble, David Farley
Reason: After you can build deployment pipelines from 'Continuous Delivery', you need a yardstick to measure the results. 'Accelerate' shows statistically that CD capabilities predict organizational performance, giving you the rationale to connect technical investment to business metrics.
- Recommended
Full Stack Testing
A Practical Guide for Delivering High Quality Software
Gayathri Mohan
Reason: Once testing and CI/CD give you a foundation for building in quality, you frame how it affects organizational delivery performance through measurement. DORA's four key metrics show empirically that speed and stability are not a trade-off.
Next Books
- Recommended
Software Engineering at Google
Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
Reason: Once you can improve delivery performance through measurement, you widen your view to the engineering culture and practices that sustain it at scale and over time. Google frames this as 'programming integrated over time.'
- Related
Team Topologies
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Reason: The evidence in 'Accelerate'—that loosely coupled architecture and autonomous teams drive high performance—naturally calls for a concrete theory of organizational design. 'Team Topologies' offers the organizational patterns to implement that evidence, serving as a data-driven guide for structuring teams.
- Related
Platform Engineering
A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders
Camille Fournier, Ian Nowland
Reason: A path to implementing the high-performing organizational capabilities shown in 'Accelerate' as a foundation that lowers developers' cognitive load. Fournier & Nowland's 'Platform Engineering' explains how self-service platforms reconcile team autonomy with productivity, turning the improvement opportunities revealed by measurement into a platform.