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...]
CASE STUDY: Etsy, Sprouter and Conway’s Law
The DevOps Handbook is now available. This is one of over 40 case studies you will find in the book. How we organize our teams affects how we perform our work. Dr. Melvin Conway proved this with a famous experiment he performed in 1968 with a contract research organization that had eight people who were commissioned to produce a COBOL and an ALGOL compiler. He observed, “After some initial estimates of difficulty and time, five people were assigned to the COBOL job and three to the ALGOL … [Read more...]
