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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Narrated by: Nicole Forsgren
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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.

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 Management Management & Leadership Programming & Software Development Software Development Business Software Programming Software Engineering Technology Business

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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

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

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You will not be disappointed. Plenty of evidence to backup the claims and reinforce what your most likely already believe. all relevant processes and technology discussed. Inspiring to help you continue on your devops transformation or even get started on it.

Great listen, transfers well to audiobook

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There are a ton of references and citations here that are useful for anyone looking to put forward a case for transforming their organisation or team. However, as an audiobook this was difficult to digest and isn't told as a particularly engaging story, more as a series of facts. I also found it a little jarring the amount of times the book said what a section was going to be about, then recapped what it was about at the end of the section. I imagine this reads a lot better than it listens.

An excellent reference guide

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

Good insights

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The book presents ideas on building high performing teams and organizations by following lean principles and primarily the learning culture. The ideas are backed by scientific research, giving the much needed credibility to this somewhat fuzzy topic and where other books are often prescriptive and subjective.
The flow of the material is quite intense, and the book requires full concentration to follow.
Some reviewers mention that the audiobook is a poor format for this material, without easy access to the figures and tables. In my experience, many of the figures in the book show relationships between measured constructs and are easily imagined based on the explanation in the text without opening the actual figure. For the remaining figures and tables, the accompanying PDF provides the necessary content.

Well presented ideas backed by research

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Thank you for doing the work and providing me with lots of learning and information I can use to experiment for continual team improvement.

Thank you from me personal for providing me learnings.

Have a great day.

Dominic

Very useful and practical

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I honestly can’t tell what the bad reviews are about…yes, you do need to pause and look at the pdf quite a bit, and you do need to engage in active listening and reflection, so not something to just listen to on the go. I had to pause and look up other articles and supporting materials and take notes etc, but found it really helpful. Recommend to anyone working in product development/ engineering teams, and if you are not in a leadership position please please spread out the ideas and maybe convince some of your leaders to also engage with the content and ideas.

If you are interested into being part of, managing or leading high performance engineering teams

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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.

There’s gold but you have to dig

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Good input especially on CD/CI and inspirational for working with software.
I recommend hearing it

Tangible and good points

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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.

Actionable and exceptionally structured

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