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IT Revolution Press (book) · 2018
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Documents the multi-year DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) research showing that four metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery — empirically predict software-organization performance. Establishes the empirical foundation for engineering-velocity measurement as a research discipline.
Our summary in our own words — see the canonical source links below for the original abstract.
Accelerate is the foundational empirical reference for the engineering-velocity measurement field. Our Code-Side Sourcing methodology operates on the same empirical premise — that publicly observable engineering activity (commit velocity, contributor influx, repo creation pulse) carries predictive signal about venture outcomes. The DORA research established the academic-level credibility for engineering-velocity measurement that our /methodology paper extends to the venture-finance domain.
DevOps Research and Assessment — multi-year research by Nicole Forsgren and colleagues documenting that four metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) predict software-organization performance. The annual State of DevOps Report is a continued output of this research line.
Code-Side Sourcing extends the engineering-velocity-measurement premise from internal organizational performance (DORA's framing) to external venture-stage outcome prediction. See /code-side-sourcing and /methodology for the connection.
Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (MTTR). Together they empirically predict software-organization performance.
Accelerate is a 2018 book (IT Revolution Press) summarizing the multi-year DORA research program; the underlying State of DevOps research continues as an annual report. We cite it as the empirical foundation of the engineering-velocity field.
The free Acceleration Watch: five venture-backed teams accelerating on the engineering signal, translated into plain English — 21 to 47 days before the deck circulates. No code-reading, no card.
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ICLR 2022 · 2021
arXiv preprint · 2022
Code-Side Sourcing methodology, replicable on the open dataset.
Read /methodology