The Phoenix Project

This book was one of the biggest inspirations for me when I wrote my book.

Running a team of technology experts is really hard, so instead of writing a reference manual or an inspirational leadership memoir, Kim tells the story of a group of people who work together to learn the same best practices that have been in use for decades in the manufacturing and project management industries.

This hits close to home since I can recognize myself and many of my colleagues in each of the vivid characters.

The Phoenix Project is a storybook about affect fictious company called parts unlimited.

I swear I must have worked at this company at some point in my career, it feels so familiar! It follows a story of an organization that used waterfall in order to make software and all the problems that happened from using this very old software development methodology.

Throughout the story they ‘discover’ how to do DevOps, slowly improving all of their process is until they have a smooth-oiled software creation machine. This includes many stories about security and why the old ways of doing information security… show more.