The text discusses how teams can improve their performance and accelerate software delivery while mitigating risk and adhering to governance. It mentions that high-performing teams deploy between once per week and once per month, have a lead time for changes between one day and one week, own a change failure rate of between 16% and 30%, and have a time to restore service of less than one day. The text also provides advice from Gene Kim on how teams can become high-performing, including measuring lead time, focusing on culture, improving architecture, increasing visibility, reducing deployment anxiety, decoupling deployments with feature flags, and dealing with technical debt.