The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0988262592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 345 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A must-read for anyone wanting to transform their IT to enable the business to win. 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 at Netflix. Every business leader and IT professional should read this book!" -- Mike Orzen, co-author of the the Shingo Prize winning book Lean IT - Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation"This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions. As Deming reminds us, 'It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.' The P
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.. 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. Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. 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. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project
"but it can become tedious when the characters "furiously take notes" according to E. Hodge. 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 pontifi. 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. Incredibly relatable and relevant; engrossing 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