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by Gene Kim, et al.

The Phoenix Project .

DevOps Management Fiction
The Phoenix Project
Rating:
4/5
Read: 2022-01-30

Review

A novel about IT and DevOps that somehow makes infrastructure exciting. Follows an IT manager saving a failing project through DevOps principles.

Key Lessons

  • The Three Ways: Flow, Feedback, Continuous Learning
  • Theory of Constraints: Identify and eliminate bottlenecks
  • WIP Limits: Too much work-in-progress kills velocity
  • Automation: Manual processes don't scale

Makes you rethink how engineering teams should operate.