Accelerate

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.