Hello! As you may know by now, The Unicorn Project will be released next week on Tuesday, November 26. We are very excited to share this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling book The Phoenix Project. In The Unicorn Project, we once again visit Parts Unlimited, but this time from the perspective of rebel developers and business leaders who work together as they race against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in the marketplace. This book is a story about how a thoughtful, dedicated … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 1, 2, 3 – Making The Book, Goldratt, & Deming
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, John Willis and I created nine hours of audio for Beyond The Phoenix Project, which is being released later this week. During the hundreds of hours of research and preparation, we explored many of the key pioneering researchers whose bodies of knowledge we draw upon so heavily in the DevOps movement. In the next email, I’ll share some of the highlights from the modules on Lean, safety culture and resilience engineering. But today, our focus is the story of … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project Audio Series & The 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project
Last month, in the IT Revolution Newsletter, I described how The Phoenix Project is celebrating its fifth birthday. In commemoration, we are releasing something I’m super excited about, titled Beyond The Phoenix Project. This is nine hours of audio (yes, it grew by two hours since January!) that John Willis and I recorded over the course of the last four months, based on hundreds of hours of research, preparation and rehearsal. For those of you who don’t know, John Willis is one of my … [Read more...]
Gene Kim and John Willis Discuss “Beyond The Phoenix Project” with SDTimes
The excitement is building as DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2017 is now less than one month away! In preparation for the event, Gene Kim and John Willis, DOES17 London programming committee members and co-authors of “The DevOps Handbook,” united to join Editor-In-Chief David Rubinstein for an SDTimes webinar. During the webinar, Kim and Willis had a lively discussion around a project they’re collaborating on (an audio podcast) called “Beyond the Phoenix Project,” which is expected to be … [Read more...]
The Price is Right
A Glimpse inside the Economics of Book Publishing DISCLAIMER: One of the areas we have been working on here at IT Revolution is the practice of continual learning. We have found that putting a focus on learning pushes us to ask better questions as we work to understand the community we serve. This post is heavy on the economics of book publishing—an important and growing area of our business. You’ll see our practice of continual learning in action! The Phoenix Project has now sold more than … [Read more...]
What I Learned: The Phoenix Project Audiobook
My first project as editorial director here at IT Revolution was to produce the audiobook version of The Phoenix Project. I have worked on many books as editor, project manager, designer, proofreader, and marketer in both print and digital. I was the primary copyeditor for The Phoenix Project back in 2012. I had never done an audiobook until now, so I thought I’d share some high points (and some low ones, too!) of the production process. To listen to part 1 of The Phoenix Project, visit … [Read more...]
Gartner Risk-Adjusted Value Model: Resource Guide for “The Phoenix Project” (Part 4)
In "The Phoenix Project," Bill and John use the GAIT-R principles and methodology (described in far more detail here) to discover how all the top company objectives on the CFO's two-page PowerPoint slide deck rely on IT. (This blog article continues the description of the "body of knowledge" that underpins "The Phoenix Project," which started in Part 1: Reading Lists, Part 2: Kanban And DevOps and Part 3: Auditing and DevOps ). Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More … [Read more...]
Audit 101 For DevOps: Resource Guide for "The Phoenix Project" (Part 3: Correctly Scoping IT Using GAIT and GAIT-R)
This blog article continues the description of the “body of knowledge” that underpins “The Phoenix Project,” which started in Part 1: Reading Lists and Part 2: Kanban And DevOps. Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More About Concepts In "The Phoenix Project" https://itrevolution.com/learn-more-about-concepts-in-phoenix-project/ Part 2: Kanbans https://itrevolution.com/resource-guide-for-the-phoenix-project-kanbans-part-2/ Part 3: Audit and correctly scoping the IT … [Read more...]
Kanbans and DevOps: Resource Guide for "The Phoenix Project" (Part 2)
This blog article continues the description of the "body of knowledge" that underpins "The Phoenix Project," which started in Part 1. Here are links to all four posts: Part 1: Where To Learn More About Concepts In "The Phoenix Project" https://itrevolution.com/learn-more-about-concepts-in-phoenix-project/ Part 2: Kanbans https://itrevolution.com/resource-guide-for-the-phoenix-project-kanbans-part-2/ Part 3: Audit and correctly scoping the IT … [Read more...]
How To Better Sell DevOps: The Construction Of "The Phoenix Project"
In this blog post, I will describe why we modeled "The Phoenix Project" so closely on Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt’s seminal book “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement,” how we used Dr. Goldratt’s Logical Thinking Processes to create a succinct description of the IT downward spiral that almost every organization is affected by, and then I’ll describe the resulting structure of "The Phoenix Project." One of the best validations about the way we characterized the downward IT spiral in the book is … [Read more...]
