Accelerate

FOREWORD

By Martin Fowler

A few years ago I read a report that said, “We can now assert with confidence that high IT performance correlates with strong business performance, helping to boost productivity, profitability, and market share.” When I read something like that, my usual response is to toss it with great force into the rubbish bin, because that’s usually a tell for some bogus bullshit masquerading as science. I hesitated this time, however, for this was the “2014 State of DevOps Report.” One of its authors was Jez Humble, a colleague and friend who I knew was equally allergic to this kind of twaddle. (Although I have to confess that another reason for not tossing it was that I was reading it on my iPad.)

So, instead I emailed Jez to ...