Dr. Nicole Forsgren is a global leader in a niche field that impacts, well, everyone.

Nicole is a DevOps and developer productivity expert who thrives on helping large organizations reshape their culture, processes, and technology to improve their business and enhance the developer experience.

This work improves value delivery for organizations, improves software and process efficiency, and increases the satisfaction and well being of developers.

Simply put, she uses research, strategy, data, and collaboration to make things awesome.

Dr. Nicole Frosgren in a green zip up jacket smiling.

She is the brains behind DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), the industry-standard method for assessing software delivery—and the predictive models to help organizations improve it. Her career journey also includes roles as a software engineer, professor, and award-winning author.

She’s currently a Partner at Microsoft Research, where she helms the Developer Experience Lab, and serves on the board at ACM Queue.

TL;DR:

Dr Nicoel Forsgren looking up with gentle focus whilst signing a copy of her book, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software

If you just stumbled upon this site, Nicole is an expert on using science to make things more delightful for software developers, more impactful for companies, and more strategic for leaders.

I swear, Nicole’s speaking style is a weird and wonderful combination of devrel / executive / professor. I don’t see anything else like it in the industry, and I’m totally here for it.

— Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist and analyst

  • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software

    This best-selling, Shingo Publication Award-winning book demonstrates how technology drives business value, backed by rigorous research across the industry.

    Download 90-page excerpt

  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability & Security in Technology Organizations

    This award-winning, best-selling book details how to take DevOps out of the IT department and apply it across the full business. The new second edition includes 100 extra pages of analysis, including 15 new case studies from top global brands.

This is the kind of foresight that CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs desperately need if their company is going to survive in this new, software-centric world. Anyone that doesn't read this book will be replaced by someone that has.

— Thomas A. Limoncelli, co-author of The Practice of Cloud System Administration

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