⭐⭐ Accelerate by Forsgren

Full Title	Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Authors	Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Year Published	2018
Date Read	October 21, 2020
Rating	2/5 stars

Uninspiring. Authors seem pretty concerned about explaining to you why their research uses valid methods (even including a whole section on statistics), rather than delving into the research that the title suggests the book would. Perhaps they felt they needed to prop up the research, because really all that’s here are surveys with a biased sample selection and subsequent correlation investigations. I’m already on board with many of the things this book espouses, but I just couldn’t get behind the way the authors approached it here. For a better treatment that doesn’t try to obscure the fact that there still isn’t really any true RCT-type research in this area, see Kim’s earlier work The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win — a much more readable piece.

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