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Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

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…

Transformational Leadership: A Quick Start Guide

by John Esser, Nicole Forsgren, Chivas Nambiar, Julia Wester, Dan Zentgraf
Sometimes we attribute the “secret sauce” of success…

The Key to High Performance

by Nicole Forsgren
This eBook is a complete transcript of the…
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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…

Tactics for Leading Change

by Courtney Kissler, Eric Passmore, Jeff Gallimore, Jeff Robke, Nicole Forsgren, Paula Thrasher, Pauly Comtois, Raphael Garcia, Rosalind Radcliffe, Ross Clanton, Scott Nasello, Scott Willson, Robyn Crummer Olson
This paper explores a variety of tactics that…

Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation

by Mirco Hering, Dominica Degrandis, Nicole Forsgren
This paper summarizes a position on DevOps measurement…

Articles

Measure Software Delivery Performance with Four Key Metrics

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

Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.