ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Gene Kim is a bestselling author, researcher, multiple award-winning CTO, and founder of IT Revolution. His books include The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, and Accelerate. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

Jez Humble has co-authored several bestselling books on software, including Jolt Award-winner Continuous Delivery and Shingo Publication Award winner Accelerate. He works at Google and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patrick Debois is Director of DevOps Relations and Advisor at Snyk. He works to bridge the gap between projects and operations by using Agile techniques in development, project management, and system administration.

John Willis is Senior Director of Global Transformation Office at RedHat. Hehas worked in the IT management industry for more than thirty-five years. He is coauthor of Beyond The Phoenix Project and host the Profound podcast.

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research leading the Developer Velocity Lab. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.