The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim (Discussion Prompts‪)‬

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


As Parts Unlimited IT manager Bill is driving to his office on a Tuesday morning, he gets a call from the CEO. The call is about the Phoenix Project. It is Parts Unlimited’s new IT initiative and it's critical to the future of the company. However, the project is way over budget and very late. The CEO is 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. The CEO requires Bill to directly report to him. He needs Bill to fix the mess in ninety days or less. If he fails, the entire department will be outsourced. Bill gains a new perspective on IT work and how it is very common to a manufacturing plant. A prospective board member teaches Bill about the philosophy of The Three Ways. In an entertaining fast-paced style, the three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver the story of The Phoenix Project. Anyone who works in IT can relate to the story and readers will never view IT the same way again.


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