Book Summary: Accelerate

Accelerate, by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

Accelerate — Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim

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Resonating Message

By making meaningful steps to introduce and improve your capabilities in continuous delivery, architecture, product & process, lean practices, and culture — you can create a profound impact on overall organizational performance.

Chapter in one sentence

1. Accelerate: We now live in a world where organizational success is frequently enabled by technical innovation — where we must look to methods to create the right culture, approach, and speed to support rapid value creation to remain competitive.
2. Measuring Performance: While there are many approaches and frameworks to software delivery, the performance of that delivery can be assessed via how frequently you release (Deployment Frequency), how long it takes for those changes to go from ideation to customer (Lead time), how quickly you can restore failures (Mean time to recovery), and how often you introduce failures to production (Change failure rate).
3. Measuring & Changing Culture: Organizations should strive to move towards a culture in…