Book Club Resources
Supporting materials to enhance your "Accelerate" book club experience
Between Meetings
Reflection questions, practical exercises, and activities to deepen your understanding between sessions.
View Activities →Discussion Practices
Facilitation guidelines and techniques for productive book club discussions.
Facilitation Guide →Extensions
Advanced topics and learning paths to continue your DevOps transformation journey.
Explore Extensions →Direct Resource Links
Extensions
Meeting Resources
Meeting 1: Foundation
Meeting 2: Technical Excellence
Meeting 3: Management & Sustainability
Meeting 4: Leadership & Transformation
Between Meetings Activities
Post-Meeting Reflection
After each session, spend 10-15 minutes reflecting on these key areas:
Practical Exercises
- Measure your team's current DORA metrics
- Identify the biggest bottleneck in your deployment pipeline
- Start a "deployment pain journal"
- Assess your organization's culture type using Westrum's model
- Interview 3 colleagues about psychological safety
- Implement one small continuous delivery practice
- Map your system's coupling dependencies
- Identify opportunities for team autonomy
- Experiment with lean management techniques
- Practice transformational leadership behaviors
- Create a learning culture initiative
- Develop your transformation roadmap
Discussion Practices
Creating Psychological Safety
How is everyone feeling about the concepts?
"This is complex, let's figure it out together"
"What would you like to understand better?"
Discuss what hasn't worked in your organizations
Facilitation Techniques
Round-Robin Sharing
Give everyone a chance to share insights without interruption.
Problem-Solution Pairs
Identify organizational challenges, then brainstorm solutions together.
Real-World Examples
Share concrete examples from your work experiences.
Action Commitments
End each session with specific commitments for the next two weeks.
Extensions
Advanced Reading
After completing "Accelerate," consider these follow-up books:
- "The DevOps Handbook" - Practical implementation guide
- "Team Topologies" - Modern organizational design
- "The Phoenix Project" - DevOps transformation story
- "Continuous Delivery" - Technical practices deep-dive
Professional Development
Measurement & Monitoring
DORA Metrics Summary
Culture Types (Westrum)
Pathological
Power-oriented, low trust, blame culture
Bureaucratic
Rule-oriented, modest trust, process focus
Generative
Performance-oriented, high trust, innovation focus