The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

• Book - phoenix project: a novel about it, devops, and helping your business win
• Language: english
• Binding: paperback

<span style="font-weight:bold;"><span>***Over a half-million sold! </span><strong style=" "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And available now the Wall Street Journal Besting sequel, </span><span style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Unicorn Project</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span></strong> </span><span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">“Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book."</span><span>―TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:bold;">“</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">The Phoenix Project</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT."</span><span>―JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on it's head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">The Phoenix Project</span><span style="font-weight:bold;"> continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution.</span><span><br /><br />In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Phoenix Project</span><span>, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The DevOps Handbook.</span><span><br /><br />Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.<br /><br />With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.<br /><br />In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:bold;">“This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions."</span><span>―JEZ HUMBLE, Co-author of </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Continuous Delivery</span><span>, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Lean Enterprise</span><span>, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Accelerate</span><span>, and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The DevOps Handbook</span><span><br /><br />――――<br /><br />“I'm delighted at how </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Phoenix Project</span><span> has reshaped so many conversations in technology. My goal in writing </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Unicorn Project</span><span> was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together."―Gene Kim, November 2019 </span>