The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

The Phoenix Project

A Novel About IT, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

IT Revolution · Print & ebook · September 3, 2024

The modern classic that changed how we look at IT in the enterprise. “Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book.”--TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media “The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT.” --JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc.

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Who it’s for
A story-driven look at IT, DevOps, and making the business work better.
Themes
IT management, DevOps, business transformation
Pacing
Fast

About this book

The modern classic that changed how we look at IT in the enterprise. “Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book.”--TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media “The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT.” --JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc.

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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. 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. 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. “This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions.” --JEZ HUMBLE, coauthor of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise, Accelerate, and The DevOps Handbook

Work Under Pressure

A story-driven look at IT, DevOps, and making the business work better.

Come here for

  • novelistic IT/DevOps pressure
  • practical business-and-handbook blend

Expect

  • career and systems friction
  • useful, sustained narrative read

Where it sits

Software Project Management40%
Leadership25%
Information Technology19%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Management
  • Tech Industry
  • Operations Management
Authors
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Publisher
IT Revolution
Published
September 3, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
IT management · DevOps · business transformation
Reading lane
Management