Episode · a16z Podcast · 2018-03-28
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
with Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv), Jez Humble (@jezhumble) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) From the old claim that "IT doesn't matter" and question of whether tech truly drives organizational performance, w
Jez Humble discussed Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren and others and The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Accelerate
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim is a technology and business book that presents research-backed capabilities and metrics for measuring software delivery performance and organizational DevOps culture.
Discussed“and this is when the key results in the book in our research is this fact the high performers do better everything because the capabilities that enable high performance in one field if done right enable it in other fields”
Where to get it
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The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is a foundational business guide that advocates for validated learning, rapid experimentation, and minimum viable products to help entrepreneurs build successful companies without wasting time or resources.
Discussed“Tito didn’t win by producing subpar cars faster; instead, he focused on making higher quality cars quickly with shorter market times. The lean manufacturing method inspired the Lean Startup approach and closely ties to DevOps, stemming from lean methodologies.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and today's episode takes a different angle on the topic by drawing on the research of one of the largest large-scale studies of software and organizational performance out there from the authors of the new book accelerate the science of lean software and DevOps building and scaling high-performing technology organizations by nichole force grin Jays humble and Jean Kim joining”
“and then we have jazz humble who is CTO at Dora and is also the co-author of the books the DevOps handbook Lean Enterprise and continuous delivery”
“and then we have jazz humble who is CTO at Dora and is also the co-author of the books the DevOps handbook Lean Enterprise and continuous delivery”
“and then we have jazz humble who is CTO at Dora and is also the co-author of the books the DevOps handbook Lean Enterprise and continuous delivery”
“I mean me and I Farley wrote the continuous delivery book back in 2010 and since then you know there's docker and communities and large-scale dosh and the cloud and all these things that you had no idea what happened”
“that's when the key Heyford as we talked about in the book and that's what devops enables”
“the book just out is accelerate building and scaling high-performing technology organizations thank you so much you guys”