Nathaniel Barnes
Chief Technology Officer
MeridianLink

This had not been the company’s first attempt at adopting these practices. However, we found this time we were not only able to do so, but we were able to really start to make the necessary cultural changes stick as well. Once those things are in place, the team was really able to begin the purposeful process of self-improvement that allowed this transformation to be successful where others had failed.I would highly recommend Mangoteque to others, especially those who are trying to do significant modernization to their tech and their team. Few consultants have the ability to help you get where you want technologically as well as to truly improve your team itself.

Simon Yeo
Chief Information Officer
Barracuda

Dave really helped us understand ways to potentially restructure the team to be more efficient and solve many of the problems arising from lack of resources and motivation in a very detailed report. Overall, we feel he is an amazing communicator. In fact, one of the things that impressed us most was how Dave worked with and engaged various leaders within the company.This engagement helped us validate a lot of the issues we had been aware of and bring more public visibility into those issues. Outside validation from a well known industry expert can be a powerful tool. Dave’s knowledge in the field of Devops, drawing from his own experience, as well as published literature, is incredibly valuable to organizations in all stages.

“Through a decade of work with Thoma Bravo portfolio companies, Dave has taught our product teams how to dramatically improve business outcomes and to discover where time comes from. He also taught us how to fly.”
Paul Zuber
Operating Partner and Head of the Technology Group

"As Dave mentions, private equity investors are serious people. This book will help the serious understand what goes wrong in R&D, and what they can do about it. I hope this helps encourage board directors to discuss R&D operating metrics with as much frequency and seriousness as they do sales and marketing operational metrics."
Gene Kim
Researcher and Bestselling Author of The Unicorn Project, The Phoenix Project, and the upcoming Wiring the Winning Organization

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"My association with Dave, be it as a collaborator on the ‘Funcast’ or as a guide addressing our portfolio companies, has always been an enriching experience. He manifests a practical, yet seasoned approach when it comes to advocating for DevOps in companies of any size. This book serves as a testament to his expertise, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of DevOps in a manner only Dave can deliver."
Jim Milbery
Operating Partner, Parker-Gale and co-host of the Private Equity Funcast podcast

“To truly harness the power of a team, you need more than management skills - you need visionary leadership and a firm grasp of DevOps best practices. This book is your guide, skillfully blending technological details with strategic wisdom. It offers a practical approach to leveraging DevOps as a catalyst for value creation in an ever-changing environment.”
Nii Ahene
Chief Strategy Officer, Tinuiti

“Dave is one of a small group of people I’ve met in my career who can talk about deep technical issues and business impact interchangeably, which is a must-have skill for anyone working in private equity. This book distills complex topics into bite-sized chunks that you can read and apply quickly.”
Scott Barstow
Operating Partner

“No longer a simple toolset, ‘DevOps Patterns for Private Equity’ positions DevOps as the beating heart of a productive engineering culture. It decisively illustrates how targeted, meaningful efforts will always outshine scattered, task-oriented actions.”
Kathy Keating
CTO, Advisor, & Executive Coach

“This book is a definitive guide for the intersection of modern software development transformation and the kind of massive business transformation that comes along with Private Equity. Whether you’re a leader in an acquired company or if you just need to drive modernization in your own business, I couldn’t recommend this book more strongly.”
Nathaniel Barnes
Chief Technology Officer, MeridianLink

"I have watched Dave grow from an engineering leader to an amazing DevOps coach for both public and private companies. Many of the insights and lessons he shared with other industry leaders from his years of experience are now available in this one book. These are hard, learned, first-hand lessons that will benefit any engineering organization and business."
Joe Kim
President & CEO of Sumo Logic

“After listening to and then engaging Dave, I’ve always been impressed with the way he engages and communicates. DevOps Patterns for Private Equity is no exception. In this book he delivers straight to the point examples and solutions on how to use DevOps to maximize growth in portfolio companies.”
Simon Yeo
CIO & SVP of Operations, WatchGuard Technologies

“Dave covers a subject that is a reality for a growing number of companies, how to achieve the outcomes that DevOps promises while being owned by a private equity owner. Dave does a great job of framing the challenge as enabling different stakeholders to communicate within the organization in order achieve peak performance and true flow.”
Joel Dolisy
Chief Technology Officer, Wellsky

“Dave catalogs a set of patterns that are the key ingredients to creating a modern world class engineering organization, covering both the philosophy and theory behind them as well as practical examples of how they are applied. I am looking forward to reading it again with my leadership team, and expect it to accelerate our transformation by several months.”
John Stauffer
VP Software Engineering, HHAExchange

”Dave speaks with authenticity as one who has lived and overcome the problems that modern DevOps philosophy addresses. His book will improve your mindset and give you tools to build a productive culture that accelerates software delivery and where people thrive"
Dan Timpson
Chief Technology Officer