Accelerate Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
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Accelerate explores how software development teams using Lean Software and DevOps can measure their performance and the performance of software engineering teams impacts the overall performance of an organization.
Note: DevOps is about integrating and automating software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops), focusing on improving (and shortening) the systems development life cycle.
Key Capabilities
Continuous Delivery
- Use Version Control for all Production Artifacts
- Automate Your Deployment Process
- Implement Continuous Integration
- Use Trunk-Based Development Methods
- Implement Test Automation
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
Architecture
- Use a Loosely Coupled Architecture
Product and Process
- Gather and Implement Customer Feedback
- Make the Flow of Work Visible through the Value Stream
- Work in Small Batches
- Foster and Enable Team Experimentation
Lean Management and Monitoring
- Have a Lightweight Change Approval Processes
- Monitor across Application and Infrastructure to Inform Business Decisions
- Check System Health Proactively
- Improve Processes and Manage Work with WIP (Work-In-Process) Limits
- Visualize Work to Monitor Quality and Communicate throughout the Team
Cultural
- Support a Generative Culture
- Encourage and Support Learning
- Support and Facilitate Collaboration among Teams
- Provide Resources and Tools that Make Work Meaningful
- Support or Embody Transformational Leadership
Four Key Metrics
- Change Lead Time
- Time to implement, test, and deliver code for a feature
- Deployment Frequency
- Number of deployments in a given duration of time
- Change Failure Rate
- Percentage of failed changes over all changes (regardless of success)
- Mean Time to Recovery
- Time it takes to restore service after production failure
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