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Common DevOps Myths

June 24, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. Myth—DevOps is Only for Startups While DevOps practices have been pioneered by the web-scale, Internet “unicorn” companies such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy, each of these organizations has, at some point in their history, risked going out of business because of the problems associated with more traditional “horse” organizations: highly dangerous code releases that were prone to catastrophic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, The DevOps Handbook Tagged With: devops, devops handbook, devops myths, Gene Kim, jes humble, John Willis, myths, patrick debois

Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 7 & 8 – The Panel & Case Studies

March 2, 2018 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, I wrote about the first six modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from each — this is from the nine hours of recorded audio that John Willis and I created, summarizing hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws most heavily upon. (By the way, we’ve gotten an update —  Beyond The Phoenix Project will be available on Audible and iTunes sometime next week.) Today, I want to tell you about the remaining modules: The Panel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beyond The Phoenix Project, DevOps Community, Research, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beyond The Phoenix Project, John Willis, lean, Safety Culture

Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 4, 5, 6 –Lean, Safety Culture and Learning Organizations

March 1, 2018 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, I described the first three modules of Beyond The Phoenix Project, along with excerpts from the first three hours — this is from the nine hours that John Willis and I created from the audio series, resulting from hundreds of hours of research into the bodies of knowledge that DevOps draws upon. Today, I wanted to share with you details from the next three modules: Lean, Safety Culture, and Learning Organizations. The first two of these areas, Lean and Safety Culture, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Beyond The Phoenix Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beyond The Phoenix Project, devops, John Willis, The Phoenix Project, three ways

Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 1, 2, 3 – Making The Book, Goldratt, & Deming

February 27, 2018 by Gene Kim 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Beyond The Phoenix Project, DevOps Community, The Phoenix Project, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beyond The Phoenix Project, deming, devops, goldratt, John Willis, The Phoenix Project

Beyond The Phoenix Project Audio Series & The 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project

February 26, 2018 by Gene Kim 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Beyond The Phoenix Project, Books, DevOps Community, Research, The Phoenix Project Tagged With: Beyond The Phoenix Project, devops, John Willis, The DevOps Handbook, The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim and John Willis Discuss “Beyond The Phoenix Project” with SDTimes

May 15, 2017 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

SDTimes webinar

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Summit, The Phoenix Project Tagged With: devops, DevOps Enterprise Summit, John Willis, The Phoenix Project

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