Accelerate: The Science Behind DevOps : Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Dr. Nicole Forsgren is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. She has been awarded public and private research grants (funders include NASA and the NSF), and her work has been featured in various media outlets and several peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She holds a PhD in management information systems and a masters in accounting. Jez Humble is co-author of The DevOps Handbook, Lean Enterprise, and the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Delivery. He has spent his career tinkering with code, infrastructure, and product development in companies of varying sizes across three continents, most recently working for the US Federal Government at 18F. As well as serving as DORA¿s CTO, Jez teaches at UC Berkeley.Follow Jez on his website or on Twitter @jezhumble. Gene Kim is a multi-award winning CTO, researcher, and author. He is the founder of Tripwire and served as CTO for thirteen years. His books include The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, The Visible Ops Handbook, and Visible Ops Security.Gene is a huge fan of IT operations and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from ¿code complete¿ to ¿in production¿ without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He has worked with some of the top Internet companies on improving deployment flow and increasing the rigor around IT operational processes. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the ¿40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40¿ list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession.Follow Gene on his website or on Twitter @RealGeneKim.