Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren is an American technology executive, IT impact expert, and author. In 2020 she was named vice-president of Research & Strategy at Microsoft's GitHub and more recently Partner at Microsoft Research. She is coauthor of Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps which won the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award in 2019.

Life and career
In 2020, Forsgren was hired by Github as the VP of Research and Strategy. She served as Director of Organizational Performance and Analytics at Chef Software from 2014 to 2015. Forsgren was CEO and co-founder of DevOps Research and Assessment LLC (DORA) with Jez Humble and Gene Kim. DORA is known for the annual State of DevOps report, and their DevOps Scorecard. In 2018 DORA was purchased by Google.