Inspire, develop, and guide a winning organization.
Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
Explore our extensive library of experience reports.
An on-demand learning experience from the people who brought you The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Accelerate, and more.
Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
Weekly discussion around “Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge” with author John Willis.
VIRTUAL — Helping leaders succeed and organizations thrive (formerly DevOps Enterprise Summit).
Venue: Fontainebleau — Helping leaders succeed and organizations thrive (formerly DevOps Enterprise Summit).
DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
Is slowify a real word?
Could right fit help talent discover more meaning and satisfaction at work and help companies find lost productivity?
The values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, and practices of DevOps.
This post presents the four key metrics to measure software delivery performance.
January 23, 2013
I’m thrilled to announce that “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win” launched on January 15th and you can now buy it in hardcover and Kindle here, as well as on the IT Revolution book page.
(Note that Amazon is currently showing the hardcover book as “out of stock,” even though there are books at the Amazon fulfillment centers. You can still order the book and get it in two days via Amazon Prime by clicking on “More Buying Choices > 2 New,” underneath the big “Add To Cart” button. We’re working with Amazon to resolve this issue. Sigh.)
I wanted to share three of my favorite comments that have come in over the last couple of weeks about the book:
“Every IT and business leader needs to read this book. It reads like a work of fiction, captivates like a mystery and educates like a textbook. There are only a handful of books that have a permanent location in my office bookshelf, and The Phoenix Project is one of them. ” -–Lisa Schwartz, Chief Operating Officer, ITSM Academy “Some books you give to friends, for the joy of sharing a great novel. Some books you recommend to your colleagues and employees, to create common ground. Some books you share with your boss, to plant the seeds of a big idea. The Phoenix Project is all three. It provides a compelling answer to the question, ‘Why DevOps, why now?,’ and should be required reading for anyone whose business depends on IT.” –Jeremiah Shirk, Integration & Infrastructure Manager at Kansas State University, and DevOps enthusiast “The Phoenix Project is practical and useful, emotionally challenging and extremely entertaining. The authors take a topic that normally speaks only to IT process geeks and make it fun, relevant and also terrifying to anyone who has ever watched a project go off the rails. I nearly wept as the protagonists made mistakes I’ve made, and cheered when they saw the light. This is a great read for team members, their stakeholders and their significant others.” — Joe Telafici, Former VP Operations at McAfee Avert Labs
“Every IT and business leader needs to read this book. It reads like a work of fiction, captivates like a mystery and educates like a textbook. There are only a handful of books that have a permanent location in my office bookshelf, and The Phoenix Project is one of them. ” -–Lisa Schwartz, Chief Operating Officer, ITSM Academy
“Some books you give to friends, for the joy of sharing a great novel. Some books you recommend to your colleagues and employees, to create common ground. Some books you share with your boss, to plant the seeds of a big idea. The Phoenix Project is all three. It provides a compelling answer to the question, ‘Why DevOps, why now?,’ and should be required reading for anyone whose business depends on IT.” –Jeremiah Shirk, Integration & Infrastructure Manager at Kansas State University, and DevOps enthusiast
“The Phoenix Project is practical and useful, emotionally challenging and extremely entertaining. The authors take a topic that normally speaks only to IT process geeks and make it fun, relevant and also terrifying to anyone who has ever watched a project go off the rails. I nearly wept as the protagonists made mistakes I’ve made, and cheered when they saw the light. This is a great read for team members, their stakeholders and their significant others.” — Joe Telafici, Former VP Operations at McAfee Avert Labs
You can read all of the testimonials that we’ve been collecting here.
On behalf of my co-authors, George Spafford and Kevin Behr, thank you to everyone who has helped us this journey!
PS: Enclosed is a picture that my wife, Margueriite, took last week when we got home. We found our first box of books from the printers that arrived, with my my twin boys, Parker and Grant, looking over my shoulder. 🙂
And of course, here’s something that I will cherish forever. I took this screenshot of the Amazon rankings on January 16th, when “The Phoenix Project” was on the same screen as some of my favorite books of all time, such as “Good To Great,” “Lean Startup,” and “5 Dysfunctions Of A Team.”
It’s about time that a book about DevOps and the management of IT can be spoken in the same breath as those books…
Viva DevOps! We live in amazing times!
Gene Kim is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, researcher, and multiple award-winning CTO. He has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999 and was the founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He is the author of six books, The Unicorn Project (2019), and co-author of the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), The DevOps Handbook (2016), and The Phoenix Project (2013). Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.
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