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skazhavets's review
5.0
This one is must read for every person in tech who is somehow involved in designing SDLC processes. It also gives a set of metrics to look at while going for improvement.
kruler's review
5.0
This might be one of the most significant works in the profession in recent years.
alexasaltzman's review
2.0
This book came highly recommended by my coworkers. I would encourage those working in DevOps to give chapters 1 and 3 a read (or appendix 1 and 2 for quick highlights). Chapter 2 was about how the research needed for the book was conducted, which was not useful to me.
tbueno's review
3.0
This book is a giant report on a series of surveys performed during some year in the IT industry with the objective to understand what makes a company a high-performing one. It is not so interesting as other books by Jez Humble like Continuous Deliver and Lean Enterprise, but it draws direct connection to them.
PROS
Accelerate in the end serves as a good reference to all the most common best practices that high-performing companies adopt. It also makes it clear that those companies are quite similar in doing what works. And quite different from low performing ones. They all deploy more, have stronger culture and leaders that make difference.
CONS
The quality of the insights is good but the writing of the book is not my favourite. There is a big chunk of the book spend explaining the methodologies and the scientific methods used to get to the conclusions and little time giving qualitative opinion on the results. I feel that the book sometimes forces the connection of the devops culture to every thing good that happens in the industry
PROS
Accelerate in the end serves as a good reference to all the most common best practices that high-performing companies adopt. It also makes it clear that those companies are quite similar in doing what works. And quite different from low performing ones. They all deploy more, have stronger culture and leaders that make difference.
CONS
The quality of the insights is good but the writing of the book is not my favourite. There is a big chunk of the book spend explaining the methodologies and the scientific methods used to get to the conclusions and little time giving qualitative opinion on the results. I feel that the book sometimes forces the connection of the devops culture to every thing good that happens in the industry