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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
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March 28 2018
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IT Revolution Press
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B07BM1TPKH
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Listening Length	4 hours and 58 minutes
Author	Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Narrator	Nicole Forsgren
Audible.ca Release Date	March 28 2018
Publisher	IT Revolution Press
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07BM1TPKH
Best Sellers Rank	#1,813 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Operations Research (Books) #1 in Business Operations Research #3 in Management Information Systems (Books)

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Amaka

A must read for every IT personnel

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 23, 2022

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Great insight into the world of devops and how it correlates to more effective software development and deployment. A must read.

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Tomer Levy

A good read, helped me organize my thoughts

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2020

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I enjoyed reading this book. There was nothing completely new, but it organized it all in a logical framework that helped me.
I took many notes and to-do's.
The book offers surveys as the main tool to measure current state and progress. Even though the logic for that is explained in chapter 13 and 14, I expected other more objective KPI's.

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Gratuz

Highlights the steps enterprises need to take to gain value from digital transformation

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 3, 2018

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If you are currently working at Netflix, Google, or Amazon in product engineering this book might not provide much insight. But for the rest of us this book shows in a scientific way the steps organization need to take to accelerate their digital output and gain the capability to stay relevant in the new digital economy.

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The Daddy

It’s in the science

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 11, 2019

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A clear, concise, and methodical look at what differentiates high performance from low performance. If you have opinions about what impacts these attributes, then be prepared examine the data that will reinforce or burst those opinions.

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smaclell

Dense Informative and Illustrating. DevOps with deep analysis

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 20, 2019

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An impressive achievement, this book distills years of hard work and analysis following growing trends in our industry. The book clearly shows the capabilities which push high performers to achieve greatness.

With the amount of data and findings they present I am not sure if you could make them more exciting. The authors are too notch, but due to the density of the material it can be a bit dry. There are entire chapters outlining the rigorous methods used. While intellectually interesting, they were harder to get through. The content is fantastic and so don't let this stop you from picking up this book.

If you want hard data to back up best practices or to help your team become stronger then this book is for you.

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Markus D

Not many hard statistics here.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 21, 2018

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Sorry Jez. I read every single book you are involved with. However I must say I am disappointed. I really am looking for some hard evidence to support the claims made in Puppet's Annual Reports, but this book just seems to offer more claims. Where are the hard numbers that prove trunk based development reduces risk?

I see claim after claim, but very little data to actually support your argument.

I am rooting for you and your work. Don't get me wrong, I think TBD is the right way to go. I just haven't seen any statistical evidence to support that. I am hoping to see more research on this topic soon.

Please keep up the great work!

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Gerald Dunn

If you want an introduction to DevOps....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 4, 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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C72839

Good practices bought together but nothing revolutionary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 17, 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.

12 people found this helpful

Mr Terry Cleary

Basic and padded overviews

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 6, 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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E. Gopalakrishnan

Excellent research

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 31, 2022

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This book is an excellent read for anyone who has been interested in organisational performance and transformations.
In the pursuit of speed of delivery some forget quality and learning. In the lounge run, this ends up in failure. A lot of the first part presented the results of the research while the second part is all about how the research was done.
It was not an easy read because a lot of it was presenting facts and explaining methods of research and why surveys and how to frame the right questions etc. However, once you get through, you'll absolutely love it.

2 people found this helpful

Kevin Gough

Essential reading for anyone involved in software development.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 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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