Accelerate

Forsgren, N., Humble, J., & Kim, G. (2018). Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. IT Revolution Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

ISBN

9781942788331

Link

https://itrevolution.com/product/accelerate/

Cited from

operations_research

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Batch Size
  • EOQ in inventory and software release cadence share the same setup-versus-holding trade-off — a team with a heavy release-day cost sits at large batches, and one that has driven the setup cost to near zero through continuous deployment sits at near-continuous flow, which is the structural basis of the DevOps movement.

    This sourceDocuments that small batch sizes and continuous deployment — driving release setup cost toward zero — improve delivery performance and shorten feedback loops.

Mechanisms

• Debt-Service Dashboard
  • A real reference point is the set of DORA delivery metrics — lead time, deployment frequency, change-fail rate, time-to-restore — which operationalize exactly this idea of standing indicators that reveal accumulating drag.
• Merge Conflict Board
  • The cautionary archetype is ITIL's change advisory board

    This sourceDescribes change advisory boards as governance for risky production changes and reports that heavyweight approval gates slow delivery, become ritualized, and are routed around.

• Version-Control Branching Workflow
  • The standard corrective is trunk-based development

    This sourceCharacterizes trunk-based development by very short-lived branches merged into trunk at least daily.

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