Nicole Forsgren
DevOps researcher and author
Nicole Forsgren is an American technology executive and researcher who coauthored Accelerate. She is known for measuring how technology teams work.
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About Nicole Forsgren
Nicole Forsgren is an American author and technology executive with expertise in the impact of information technology (IT). She led the research behind some of the biggest DevOps studies to date, and her best-known work is about measuring technology processes. Accelerate, which she coauthored, won a Shingo publication award in 2019. She has also written The DevOps Handbook and Frictionless. In 2020 she became vice president of Research & Strategy at GitHub, and she later joined Microsoft Research as a Partner. Earlier, she was an entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), a professor, a developer, a sysadmin and a performance engineer. She holds a PhD in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Arizona.