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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Phoenix Project Book Club?
Over the past couple of years, we’ve had several inquiries come in from various organizations and groups for a list of discussion questions for The Phoenix Project. Now that the book has sold nearly 90,000 copies, we thought it was pretty likely that you were already discussing the book and had some great questions you might […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 portions: https://itrevolution.com/audit-101-for-devops-resource-guide-for-the-phoenix-project-part-3-correctly-scoping-it-using-gait-and-gait-r/ Part 4: The Gartner […]
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 […]
