Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Accelerate distills years of research into a clear formula for high-performing technology organizations. The authors measured thousands of teams and found four key metrics-lead time for changes, deployment frequency, mean time to restore, and change fail rate-that separate elite from average performers. By improving these metrics, companies see higher profitability, market share, and employee satisfaction.

The book explains why speed and stability are not at odds but complementary. It walks leaders through practical steps: adopt version-control-based deployment pipelines, automate testing, and implement a culture of blameless post-mortems. The data-driven approach lets you benchmark your team against industry norms and prioritize the changes that will move the needle fastest.

For technical leaders, Accelerate provides a roadmap to shift from heroic, fire-fighting development to a predictable, scientific process. It shows how to align engineering goals with business outcomes, convince executives with hard numbers, and build a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.

Reading this book equips you to diagnose bottlenecks, set measurable targets, and create the feedback loops that keep high-velocity teams healthy over the long term.