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

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Review: Everyone in IT should read this book. - 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 desertcart 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.
Review: Great wisdom about life (not just IT) delivered using an engaging story... - Let's face it - we're all in the middle of a new Industrial Revolution - only this time it's about the automation of information processing. As with the original Industrial Revolution, the impacts of automation on people and skills needed are profound. People who don't understand what's happening will be at a disadvantage. Yet people who have read and understood the implications of this book will have insights into the parallels between what happened with manufacturing automation and what will inevitably happen with the automation of information processing. Only people who have this insight are in a position to identify the root causes of many of the world's cirrent social, political and economic challenges. Simply trying to maintain inefficient, slow and unpredictable working practices (as common in 'legacy' IT environments as it once was in pre Industrial Revolution manufacturing) is not the answer. Establishing consensus between technical and non-technical stakeholders both about what is worthwhile and what is achievable given constraints of time,cost and resources (including people, processea and technology) is vital. This book goes a long way towards responding to the challenges of today's Industrial Revolution, bur most importantly it provides enough wisdom about the fundamental forces that are in play today to allow readers to devise their own personal responses. Before reading tbis book I was aware of most of the underlying theory and technologies and had encountered work colleagues similar to the archetypes represented by the characters in this book, but only when I read this book did the big picture of what is going on in the world at large become so clear. Now that I have gained these new insights, I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with responsibility for social/political/economic planning, organisational managemt, operational research, systems engineering, information security or information technology. Finally, a word of warning: this book can easily be read over the course of two days.but as it's a gripping read you may want to plan to start it when you have an interruption-free weekend coming up...

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 50,518 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 37 in Managers' Guides to Computing 825 in Engineering & Technology |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (14,358) |
| Dimensions  | 15.49 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm |
| Edition  | 4th ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 1950508943 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1950508945 |
| Item weight  | 408 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | 3 Sept. 2024 |
| Publisher  | IT Revolution Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Everyone in IT should read this book.
*by J***E on 11 December 2013*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great wisdom about life (not just IT) delivered using an engaging story...
*by T***W on 24 December 2016*

Let's face it - we're all in the middle of a new Industrial Revolution - only this time it's about the automation of information processing. As with the original Industrial Revolution, the impacts of automation on people and skills needed are profound. People who don't understand what's happening will be at a disadvantage. Yet people who have read and understood the implications of this book will have insights into the parallels between what happened with manufacturing automation and what will inevitably happen with the automation of information processing. Only people who have this insight are in a position to identify the root causes of many of the world's cirrent social, political and economic challenges. Simply trying to maintain inefficient, slow and unpredictable working practices (as common in 'legacy' IT environments as it once was in pre Industrial Revolution manufacturing) is not the answer. Establishing consensus between technical and non-technical stakeholders both about what is worthwhile and what is achievable given constraints of time,cost and resources (including people, processea and technology) is vital. This book goes a long way towards responding to the challenges of today's Industrial Revolution, bur most importantly it provides enough wisdom about the fundamental forces that are in play today to allow readers to devise their own personal responses. Before reading tbis book I was aware of most of the underlying theory and technologies and had encountered work colleagues similar to the archetypes represented by the characters in this book, but only when I read this book did the big picture of what is going on in the world at large become so clear. Now that I have gained these new insights, I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with responsibility for social/political/economic planning, organisational managemt, operational research, systems engineering, information security or information technology. Finally, a word of warning: this book can easily be read over the course of two days.but as it's a gripping read you may want to plan to start it when you have an interruption-free weekend coming up...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good read for IT Ops/Agile/DevOps - scenarios somewhat extreme
*by A***T on 17 December 2020*

A good book written in a form of a fictional novel that portrays the classical (and somewhat extreme) challenges of an IT Operations which hasn't kept pace with the time and doesn't have effective ways of working to get things done in a coordinated and timely fashion. The book takes you through the dramatic highs and lows of a day in the life of IT Ops executives and depicts the importance of IT in realising (or not) organisation's strategy/competitive edge. It shows the importance of the IT best practices such as DevOps and Agile in a most practical and pragmatic way without making it too academical or mundane to read.

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