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.
December 21, 2019
First off, I want to thank everyone so much for all your support, encouragement, teachings, stories, and enthusiasm for The Unicorn Project. I am so delighted that we hit #2 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list for hardcover business books on the week ending November 30, 2019!
I hope that having The Unicorn Project show up alongside other business books shows that the technology challenges we face today are genuine business challenges that cannot be delegated away to “those technology people.”
In this blog post, I provide resources and further reading for concepts in The Unicorn Project. I first list the books that most influenced my thinking during the development of this book, as well as a chapter-by-chapter list of references to the many many lectures, talks, videos, articles, tweets, and personal correspondences with people I admire that inspired scenes in those chapters.
This post expands upon the citations listed at the end of the book. I added further background, commentary, and additional readings for people interested in learning more about those topics.
(PS: The contents of this blog post will change, as it gets edited for clarity and correctness, and I will likely add to it as I finish up Part 2!)
Before I go into the chapter-by-chapter list of references, I want to describe the books that most heavily influenced The Unicorn Project. In my opinion, these books are the best codifications of the most relevant bodies of knowledge which the DevOps community draws upon:
The rest of this blog post and follow-up posts will present additional resources and concepts presented by each chapter. The Unicorn Project has nineteen chapters. I start with Chapter 2, as there are no references in the first chapter.
In the interest of getting something posted before 2019 ends, I am posting Part 1 now, which covers many of the major books that served as inspiration for The Unicorn Project, and a chapter-by-chapter listing of references for Chapters 1 through 8.
Part 2 will cover the books that I didn’t cover in this post, as well as completing the list of references for Chapters 9 through 19.
Again, thank you for all your interest, enthusiasm, and support. Have a wonderful 2019, and may 2020 be even more joyful and prosperous than 2019!
And for your researching and viewing pleasure, you can find a YouTube playlist of the videos I’ve selected here—this includes videos from Part 1, as well as the upcoming Part 2.
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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