Accelerate

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book emerged from the partnership between DORA and Puppet on the State of DevOps Reports. Thus, we’d like to start by thanking the Puppet team, and in particular Alanna Brown and Nigel Kersten who were the principal contributors from the Puppet side. We’d also like to thank Aliza Earnshaw for her meticulous work editing the State of DevOps Reports over several years. The report would not be the same without her careful eye.

The authors would also like to thank several people who helped develop the hypotheses we test in the report. From 2016, we thank Steven Bell and Karen Whitley Bell for their promptings to investigate Lean product management, and for their time spent on research and discussions with the team on the theories ...