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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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“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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“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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“everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon”
― roger waters

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“They had wasted all their time memorizing”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

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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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