About Nicole Forsgren, PhD

Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud following the acquisition of her startup DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) by Google. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known for her work measuring the technology process and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been an entrepreneur, professor, sysadmin, and performance engineer. Nicole’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Nicole earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and is a Research Affiliate at Clemson University and Florida International University.

Links Referenced: 

• Twitter Username: @nicolefv
• LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolefv/
• Personal site: nicolefv.com
• Company site: cloud.google.com/devops
• X-Team: x-team.com/cloud