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The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
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really liked it
bookshelves: engineering, fiction, sysadmin, tech, theory

to be honest, I'm a bit embarrassed how much i enjoyed this book! It's basically a business/IT management book thinly disguised as a novel, but i must say it's very well done. It's such niche subject matter that i'm not sure anyone outside of an IT Ops role would appreciate it, but i genuinely learned a lot about how IT needs to integrate within business goals to actually achieve anything, that it doesn't exist in a vacuum, and if it does, then something is seriously out of wack. It preaches good principles, basically the silver bullet of Continuous Deployment and what value that brings to the dev cycle. I believe from what I've read that it's basically a rewrite of 'The Goal' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goa... - which is "widely used in leading colleges of management to teach students about the importance of strategic capacity planning and constraint management." but with a DevOps spin on it.

Its definitely a tech book but eschews any one technology, to focus on the underlying principles.

I'm curious to see what others make of it.
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February 1, 2013 – Shelved
February 1, 2013 – Shelved as: engineering
February 1, 2013 – Shelved as: fiction
February 1, 2013 – Shelved as: sysadmin
February 1, 2013 – Shelved as: tech
February 1, 2013 – Shelved as: theory
February 1, 2013 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Xeno (new) - rated it 4 stars
Nov 05, 2019 07:55AM

Xeno I'm embarrassed too how much i liked it :/


message 2: by Domenik (new) - rated it 5 stars
Aug 15, 2020 09:31AM

Domenik Also loved the book, would‘ve never thought that I‘d say something like this over a book like this 😂


message 3: by Trudi (new) - rated it 5 stars
Feb 27, 2021 04:28PM

Trudi Brand I'm coming from a business background (no IT experience at all) and I loved this book! I found it helpful and gave me a better insight into how IT can work in both positive and negative ways in organisations.


message 4: by Gergina (new) - rated it 5 stars
Mar 20, 2021 10:14PM

Gergina I simply love this book. It describes most of my work life in a funny and constructive and learn something new way!


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