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Jez Humble

Jez Humble is the coauthor of Accelerate and The DevOps Handbook

Books & Resources

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The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition

by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren
This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital…
Accelerate Book Cover

Accelerate

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Winner of the Shingo Publication Award Accelerate your…

How to Transform

by Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim
This supplemental chapter to Accelerate discusses common failure…

Articles

How to Integrate Operations Into the Daily Work of Development

November 30, 2021
In the Where to Start with DevOps series, we have explored a variety…

How (and Why) to Design With Conway’s Law in Mind

November 30, 2021
Over the past 2 blogs in this series, we have discussed the necessary…

Understanding the Work in Our Value Stream and Improving Flow

November 30, 2021
In our last post, we highlighted how to identify a value stream to…

Selecting Which Value Stream to Start With

November 30, 2021
Choosing the best value stream for your DevOps transformation deserves careful consideration. Not…

Measure Software Delivery Performance with Four Key Metrics

February 25, 2021
This post has been adapted from Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and…

Jez Humble

Jez Humble is an award-winning author and researcher on software who has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in organizations of varying sizes across three continents, most recently working for the US government at 18F. He teaches at UC Berkeley, and is CTO of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC.