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The Three Ways Revisited: The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition

November 30, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Wondering if The DevOps Handbook is for you? First edition authors, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis developed this book for anyone looking to transform their IT organization—especially those who want to make serious changes through the DevOps methodology in order to increase productivity, profitability and win the marketplace. In the newly released second edition, Nicole Forsgren has added new material, research, and statistics that prove DevOps really does work. It is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, The DevOps Handbook Tagged With: devops, devops handbook, devops handbook second edition, Gene Kim, jez humble, John Willis, nicole forsgren, patrick debois, three ways

The Five Ideals of DevOps

August 4, 2020 by Gene Kim 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Books, DevOps Community, The Unicorn Project Tagged With: better value sooner safer happier, devops, five ideals, five ideals of devops, Gene Kim, parts unlimited, The Phoenix Project, the unicorn project, three ways, three ways of devops

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

A Personal Reinterpretation Of The Three Ways

July 10, 2013 by Tim Hunter 5 Comments

A note from Gene Kim: Last year, I got an email from Tim Hunter that blew me away.  Among many brilliant things, he sent me a rewrite of The Three Ways, which are intended to be a set of principles from which you can derive all the observed DevOps patterns from. When I read what he wrote, my jaw dropped.  It was like having a poet rewrite your dissertation thesis.  I’ve incorporated his language of Flow, Feedback and Continual Experimentation and Learning into all my talks now, and it will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community Tagged With: devops, three ways

Elements Of The First Way: And The DevOps Implications…

September 12, 2012 by Gene Kim Leave a Comment

In a previous blog post on “The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps”, I wrote the underpinning principles in which all the DevOps patterns can be derived from.  They describe the values and philosophies that frame the processes, procedures, practices, as well as the prescriptive steps. In this post, I’m going to describe some of the elements of the First Way, which will allude to some of the DevOps patterns that result from its application.   The First Way emphasizes … [Read more...]

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