Oleg Ilyenko's Reviews > The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

A beautiful story about heroic manages on their journey to increase the resource throughput, the resource utilization, as well as resource task standardization. I was especially touched when all of the IT managers were gathered together and did their best to build the trust relationship between themselves by sharing the most precious memories of their lives and opening their hearts to the overwhelming human emotions of their peers. I think this was a pivotal moment for the whole management team which gave them confidence, courage, and determination to optimize the resource throughput and utilization to an extent never seen before in a prospect of a tragic company downfall. It is hard to overemphasize the importance of the key resource, Brent...

Ok, it's enough. It was incredibly frustrating to read this book. I started to wonder how different destiny of the Parts Unlimited and Phoenix Project would be if the management team would try to practice less micro-management and show just a sign of appreciation that these 150+ resources that they are managing are actual human beings quite capable of fulfilling the company's vision without their command and control, given that they at least try to create an appropriate environment for it. This book gave me an interesting new perspective on the Kanban.

I could barely stand the first half of the book. The second half of the book made me physically sick.