Accelerate
About this book
Forsgren, Humble and Kim present four years of survey research into what predicts software delivery performance. Four key metrics of deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to restore service and change failure rate correlate with organisational performance. The book covers the twenty four capabilities that drive those metrics and includes the research methodology in full, which is unusual and makes the claims checkable.
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Related concepts
- Releasing an IncrementWhen a Done Increment can reach users, why the Sprint Review is not a gate, and what a rare batched release does to the feedback loop.
- Forecasting and release planningScrum prescribes no forecasting technique. What it defines is that the Sprint Goal is the commitment, and that projections come from observation.
- Retrospectives and continuous improvementA regular inspection of how the work is being done, conducted so that it produces one change with an owner, and never a list of complaints that nobody acts upon.
- Technical debtThe accumulated cost of past choices that makes changing a product slower, and the Product Owner decision about when to pay it down.