Nicole Forsgren
Researcher of software delivery; co-author of Accelerate and co-founder of DORA.
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- Nicole Forsgren is an American technology executive and researcher on how software teams perform.
- She co-founded DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) with Jez Humble and Gene Kim in 2015 and was its CEO until Google bought it in 2018.
- She became vice president of research and strategy at GitHub in 2020 and later a partner at Microsoft Research.
- She co-wrote Accelerate (2018).
Key facts
- DORA
- Co-founder and CEO, DevOps Research and Assessment, from 2015 until its purchase by Google in 20181
- Later roles
- Vice president of research and strategy, GitHub (from 2020); partner, Microsoft Research1
- Earlier
- Director of organizational performance and analytics, Chef Software, from 2014 to 20151
- Education
- Master of Accounting, University of Arizona; PhD in management information systems1
- Book
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps (2018), Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award 20191
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