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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren

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The key to successful change is measuring and understanding the right things with a focus on capabilities—not on maturity.

Post Office

by Charles Bukowski

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“Any improvements made anywhere besides the bottleneck are an illusion.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“technical debt’ that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn’t pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent. Can everything really be that important?”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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“If you take 1 divided by 243 you get .004115226337…It’s quite cute: It goes a little cockeyed after 559 when you’re carrying but it soon straightens itself out and repeats itself nicely. I thought it was kind of amusing.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

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