The Phoenix Project

By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Book cover of The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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***Over a half-million sold! And available now, the Wall Street Journal Bestselling sequel The Unicorn Project***

"Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book."-TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media

"The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives…

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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…

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