a16z Podcast: Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps

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🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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with Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv), Jez Humble (@jezhumble) and Sonal Chokshi (@smc90) From the old claim that "IT doesn't matter" and question of whether tech truly drives organizational performance, we've been consumed with figuring out how to measu...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. So one of our favorite themes to talk about
0:05.4	on this podcast is how software changes organizations and the nature of the firm. And today's
0:10.5	episode takes a different angle on the topic by drawing on the research of one of the largest,
0:15.3	large-scale studies of software and organizational performance out there. From the authors of the new
0:20.8	book, Accelerate,
0:22.0	The Science of Lean Software and DevOps,
0:24.2	Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
0:27.1	by Nicole Forsgrin, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim.
0:30.5	Joining us to have this conversation,
0:31.7	we have Nicole, who did her PhD research
0:33.5	trying to answer the elusive, eternal questions
0:35.9	around how to measure this,
0:37.4	especially given
0:38.0	past debates around does IT matter? She's now the CEO of Dora, DevOps research and assessment,
0:43.1	which also puts out with Puppet, the annual state of DevOps report. And then we have Jez Humble,
0:47.9	who is CTO at Dora, and is also the co-author of the books, The DevOps Handbook, Lean
0:52.2	Enterprise, and Continuous Delivery. They share the
0:55.0	latest findings about high-performing companies of all kinds, even those who may not think
0:58.7	their tech companies, and answer whether there is an ideal organizational type, in size, architecture,
1:04.0	culture, or people that lends itself to success here. But we begin this episode by briefly
1:08.4	talking about the history of DevOps and where it fits in the broader landscape of related software movements.
1:14.2	So I started as a software engineer at IBM. I did hardware and software performance.
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