Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble and Gene Kim

This book goes into depth on research that shows how DevOps techniques can make technology organizations more effective. Fundamentally, they can help create generative team cultures which in turn leads to higher performance, better retention and better outcomes. The book shares multiple years of research from the State of DevOps reports.

The exploration of the 4 key metrics of high performance engineering teams was great. The 24 capabilities and sections on leadership were really useful. There was a meaty 30% of this book that was fantastic.

The rest other 70% of the book was very fluffy. The examples never dove to any meaningful level of depth. Lots of surface level, generalized assertions. It felt like it missed that every technology organization is different, with different trade-offs to be made, and gave completely generalized uncontroversial advice.

I do appreciate this book, but it could have been so much better given the data set they had access to. Or it could have easily just been half the length.

the critical handbook for a software practitioner/leader

A great summer of 24 practices, backed with data, analysis and fantastic commentary that when implemented well, can really change the way your company makes better, faster and happier software

Outstanding, clear, concise book on leading a technology organization backed with research. This is one of the few books that I've read that once completed, I turned back to the front and started reading again. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved in managing technology teams or organizations.

This is a solid book that outlines a lot of best practices of software development. As I think with all these styles of books, take away a tid-bit or two and you have succeeded. This one gave me a few points to think about to better myself!