In The Phoenix Project, we introduced the Three Ways underpinning DevOps. In my follow-up book, The Unicorn Project, I revisit Parts Unlimited and describe my learnings through the Five Ideals. The First Ideal: Locality and Simplicity The Second Ideal: Focus, Flow, and Joy The Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work The Fourth Ideal: Psychological Safety The Fifth Ideal: Customer Focus These are five topics that I’ve constantly gravitated toward over the last decade, and I continually seek to … [Read more...]
Project to Product: From Stories to Scenius
Guest Blog from Mik Kersten We learn through stories—either through our own or through those passed on by others that we admire. When I first read The Phoenix Project, I was amazed at how much technological wisdom could be passed on in story form. That story, perhaps more than any other, motivated people to find a new perspective on the current problems that plague enterprise IT, and to seek a better way. I saw the publication of The Phoenix Project as a flare shot high into the sky, and … [Read more...]
Beyond The Phoenix Project: Modules 4, 5, 6 –Lean, Safety Culture and Learning Organizations
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
