The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win

The way the authors communicate extremely valuable but complex and technical information in such an easy to read and enjoyable way is an incredible achievement. I'd recommend this to any current or aspiring IT professional.

I'd bought a copy and put off reading it, being a little be sceptical of the novel format. Would it really be the best way to convey some of the ideas that are already floating around thanks to Gene and others?My interest was re-ignited after meeting Gene at the 2013 DevOpsDays un-conference in London. He's a really enthused guy and clearly spends a great deal of time thinking about how to fix the often dysfunctional world IT. His credibility was only cemented further for me when I saw the length of the queue for his books and the number of people forgoing lunch to lay their hands on a copy.Ok - so the book. Aside from a few sloppy typos, it's well written and I was quickly ensconced. To some extent it sucks you in at the beginning with your own sense of disbelief. Can this project get any worse? Why on earth hasn't Bill resigned? However, suspending incredulity at it's contrived nature and caricatures I found myself identifying with the chaotic state of IT and it's turbulent relationship to the rest of Parts Unlimited.It doesn't take an English degree to know that this novel will faithfully trace a comic curve and after the thrill of watching the plot plummet to rock bottom you're left with a worry. Will the bounce back up be as gripping?We jettison much of the schadenfreuder and the new kick comes from the appearance of Erik - our lean gene. Despite being something of a cliché, his sporadic and enigmatic advice risks being an annoyance but fortunately manages to be enough to leave me wanting to know more. A minor frustration is that as he drops in names of theories and their authors I kept wanting to go off and read up on Erik's suggestions. Lack of references and appendices put pay to that. However, knowing that Gene is an approachable chap, a quick email renders links to the IT Revolution Press blog.All in all, despite some of the frustrations, this book left me inspired and wanting to read more on the topics raised. With gentle caveats I'd certainly recommend it.I'm looking forward to The DevOps Cookbook - despite the cheesy teaser in this book.

If like me, you've worked on projects and for software vendors, but never in an actual It dept then this is the book for you. It brings together the different strands of IT in a coherent and modern way to illuminate how things really work. It's also a pretty good read so it's doesn't feel like a text book!!

I recently read the book "Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" and I have to say, it was a really good read. As someone who works in the IT industry, I found the book to be both informative and entertaining. The characters and their experiences were relatable, and the lessons learned were valuable. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about IT or DevOps. It's a great way to gain insight and improve your business practices.

If you work in IT (heck, even if your business has any IT - so that's all of you), then you should read this book.Regardless of your specific role, I'm certain that you'll learn something useful (and more importantly, actionable). I've changed my approach to doing a few things already based on lessons I've taken from the book and I still need to process some more ideas around how to do stuff better. I expect that I'll be reading it at least one more time through so that I don't miss anything that I could make use of.One month ago, I'd never heard about this book. Of all the interesting and useful things that I took away from the Microsoft Global MVP Summit this November, I suspect that this will have the greatest impact. Fellow PowerShell MVP Steven Murawski often talks about DevOps and recommends this book in his presentations. He's such a fan of the book that he brought a bunch of copies to give out and I was very glad to receive one after hearing him extol its virtues.Having read the first few chapters on the flight back from Seattle, on landing I purchased the Kindle edition from Amazon UK so that I could carry it around on my Kindle and phone in order to reduce the barriers to being able to consume it!Personally, I love the approach that this book takes. By encompassing so much useful information about ITSM, DevOps methodologies and much more in a novel with an engaging storyline, I was able to read it much more easily and quickly that many of the dry technical texts that bog down our industry. I think that it also helped me to digest the information and apply it to my work situation more easily, even though I work in a significantly different type of organisation to that in the story.The bottom line is that this isn't just a good book, it's an important book. You should read it at the first available opportunity. We'll all be the better for it.

Loads of good comments, ideas and models to bridge the most common gaps and issues we can see on IT departments.Realistically this is a management book that invites you to recognize ways to optimize teams, processes and workflows by following clear ideas which you can borrow and execute.

Read this after having it recommended to me by several colleagues. It's a very readable book, and while a bit trite in places, serves as a really nice primer to help people understand what agile working is, and why we do things in the way we do. You aren't going to become a fully fledged scrum master after reading it, but if you ever wondered why your development teams work in sprints, insist on having a daily standup, etc - then this book is well worth a read.If only the real world were as neat!

En primer lugar aclarar que es una novela no un manual, para aquellos que desean leerlo, yo lo adquirí sabiendo esto y me resulta una lectura muy interesante y dinámica, que ayuda a conocer la cultura DevOps y comprender cómo esta cultura sirve para mejorar en muchos aspectos la TI así como muchos procesos de la operación y por ende del negocio en las compañías donde es implementada.

This book presents stories and lessons very familiar to those who work with IT, either in big or small and medium companies.Addicting to read in its romance format, no matter in which area of IT you work on, frontend, backend, or something more "scientific" as developing AI models, you will absolutely learn something new and important!Apresenta histórias e lições muito familiares para quem trabalha com TI, tanto em empresas grandes quanto pequenas ou de médio porte.Viciante de ler em seu formato de "romance", independente da área de TI que você trabalha, seja no front, no back, ou até mesmo com atividades "mais científicas", como desenvolver modelos de IA, você irá aprender algo novo e importante com certeza!

A must read for people who want to be on the more administrative side of software development

Ouvrage simple de fiction permettant d'appréhender transition agile avec exemple pris dans l'environnement industriel. La base reste Scrum dans environnement informatique mais on élargit vite très au-delà permettant de comprendre l'impact ...

Lectura muy interesante, el libro nos muestra el muro que existe entre Dev y Ops, y cómo poder afrontarlo, así como disfunciones del equipo.