The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the fifth anniversary edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.
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 90 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 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. Listeners will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same.
Customer Reviews
Addictive storytelling, truly impressive voice work!
I’m about a quarter of the way through (chapter 19), and even though it’s nothing like I’d hoped, I am absolutely loving it.
It’s not about IT, or software engineering, or computer science. It just happens to have an IT background setting, while it’s actually about management, interdepartmental relations, and human conflict.
And the main character is pretty unlikeable at first: cynical, self-important, and constantly making sarcastic comments that show disrespect for other department heads - unwilling to see their side of the story or to consider the differing goals involved.
At the same time, it is just so well written that it really hooks you. And as the story progresses, you start to see all of the characters grow. Importantly, the situation is easy to relate to. I come from a completely different background, yet so many of the incidences and interactions and conflicts are so familiar.
But what really amazes me is the effort that the voice actor has put in. Having listened to a handful of other audio books with voicing that ranges from pathetic to bearable, this feels like a movie! So truly well done!
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