Author, Software Engineer
Jez Humble is a software engineer and co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning book Accelerate, along with Continuous Delivery and The DevOps Handbook. He co-founded DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), which was acquired by Google, where he works as a site reliability engineer. He also teaches at UC Berkeley's School of Information and holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University.
by Jez Humble
Humble and Farley argue that software should always be in a deployable state. Automating the build, test, and release pipeline eliminates risk and makes frequent, reliable releases routine.
by Jez Humble
Humble shows how large organisations can adopt lean and agile without sacrificing governance. The key is building a culture of continuous experimentation and empowered teams across the enterprise.
The books Jez Humble references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by David Thomas
Thomas and Hunt argue that great software comes from a craftsman's mindset: think critically, take ownership, and never stop learning. Pragmatic techniques like DRY and orthogonality compound into mastery.
by Frederick Brooks
Brooks argues that adding more programmers to a late project makes it later - a principle now known as Brooks' Law. The deeper insight: software complexity grows faster than headcount, making communication the real bottleneck.
by Martin Fowler
Fowler argues that improving code structure without changing behaviour is essential to software longevity. Small, disciplined refactoring steps reduce complexity and prevent technical debt from compounding.
by Robert C. Martin
Martin argues that code is read far more often than written. Clean code, with clear names, small functions, and minimal dependencies, is a professional responsibility, not a luxury.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
by Clayton Christensen
Christensen explains why successful companies fail: they rationally ignore disruptive innovations that initially serve small, unprofitable markets, until those markets overtake them entirely.
Who Jez draws from, and who draws from Jez — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.