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

Told through an absorbing story that is impossible to put down, the authors teach the essential lessons in an accessible way. Goldratt's book The Goal did for manufacturing." -- Jez Humble, co-author of the Jolt award-winning book Continuous Delivery and Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios"This book is the modern day version of The Goal. Goldratt, and shows us how to diminish our modern constraints to help the business win." -- John Willis, VP Client Services and Enablement, enStratus, Host of "DevOps Cafe""This is the IT swamp draining manual for anyone who is neck deep in alligators." -- Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect

but it can become tedious when the characters "furiously take notes The Phoenix Project is a business book masquerading as a work of fiction. As soon as I started evaluating The Phoenix Project in the context of a business book, rather than fiction, I started enjoying it a lot more, gaining much more insight into the concepts presented, rather than focusing on the unsophisticated prose and highly contrived scenarios. The "plot" serves as a vehicle for the authors to explore and pontificate on the business ideologies presented throughout. The main character, Bill, is mentored through each of these concepts, implementing them for the benefit of the reader to see the dramatic impact e. Now if only all those how read the book in our company acted like they absorbed ANY of it's lessons Andrew in DFW The entire dev dept of my employer decided to read this book. One of them mentioned it to me, as a senior Unix SA who works with them very closely in an increasingly "DevOps" role, I could identify with just about every aspect of the story and all the challenges presented and solved. It presented many of issues I'd never even thought about, but became obvious once they were explained. Now if only all those how read the book in our company acted like they absorbed ANY of it's lessons, things would go much more smoothly. Our challenges are no where near as great as Parts Unlimted's (we have no physical product and no. Incredibly relatable and relevant; engrossing Emily Bailey I cannot impress upon you strongly enough how amazing this book is. It's been on my list for a while but starting new job writing process and policy for IT where all the leadership has read it made me move it up to the top of the list. I'm 75% done in only 2 days and that is an amazing feat since I'm usually too busy to read.This book has me thoroughly engrossed. I love that it's written in story form rather than a dry how-to form. The story of Bill, Patty, John, Wes, and gang is all of us. The story is incredibly relatable to anyone who has spent any significant time in IT, especially in a corporate environment. I

The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. 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. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.. 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 manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited