The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0988262509 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today, our constraints aren't robots inside our factories, but it's how we manage technologies like Tomcat and Java that power our most critical projects and applications. Goldratt's book The Goal did for manufacturing." -- Jez Humble, co-author of the Jolt award-winning book Continuous Delivery and Principal at ThoughtWorks Studios"This book is the modern day version of The Goal. Goldratt, and shows us how to diminish our modern constraints to help the b
With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.. In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced
E. Hodge said but it can become tedious when the characters "furiously take notes. The Phoenix Project is a business book masquerading as a work of fiction. As soon as I started evaluating The Phoenix Project in the context of a business book, rather than fiction, I started enjoying it a lot more, gaining much more insight into the concepts presented, rather than focusing on the unsophisticated prose and highly contrived scenarios. The "plot" serves. Now if only all those how read the book in our company acted like they absorbed ANY of it's lessons Andrew in DFW The entire dev dept of my employer decided to read this book. One of them mentioned it to me, as a senior Unix SA who works with them very closely in an increasingly "DevOps" role, I could identify with just about every aspect of the story and all the challenges presented and solved. It presented many of issues I'd never even thought about, but became obvious once the. Incredibly relatable and relevant; engrossing Emily Bailey I cannot impress upon you strongly enough how amazing this book is. It's been on my list for a while but starting new job writing process and policy for IT where all the leadership has read it made me move it up to the top of the list. I'm 75% done in only 2 days and that is an amazing feat since I'm usually too busy to read.This book has me thoroughly engrossed. I lo