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  • The Phoenix Project

  • A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
  • By: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  • Narrated by: Chris Ruen
  • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,328 ratings)

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The Phoenix Project

By: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Narrated by: Chris Ruen
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Summary

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the fifth anniversary edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.

Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of the Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow, streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Listeners will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2014 Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford (P)2015 Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
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Excellent intro to challenges of managing an IT department

Great book to learn about the challenges IT departments face in a digital fast moving business world. Specially true for those businesses that are being held by the legacy nature of their departments.
I think it is very important to highlight the necessary cultural change that businesses need to make if they are to be successful.

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Great Story

Working within IT I wasn't sure this book would be of interest, however it was great to go through 'other peoples' IT issues and see how they worked to resolve them.

The characters in the book are easy to identify with and the story keeps you listening.

Not sure it's a book for those from a non-IT background though.

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great insight into the Dev-Ops way of thinking

loved it, intriguing read which really give real insights into the problems facing many businesses and insights into the Dev-Ops solutions

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The most inspiring book for lean and agile DevOps

This book is both inspiring and informative with a well delivered story telling and voice acting. It the most recommended choice for new managers as introduction for management in the digital organisation covering concepts of Agile, lean DevOps and project management.

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A must read for anyone in IT

This truly is a great book/audio book! It's a great story with that represents some of the trials some IT managers must go through. It's well written and even has a drop of great humour in it

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Fantastic Read

Extremely recommended. This is the best book I have listened to all year. Just loved it!

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Superb. The audiobook is the icing on the cake

As another reviewer said, this audiobook proves again what a difference an audio version can make to certain books. The book was good, the audio version, for me at least, takes it to another level.

Although there have since been more detailed accounts of the topics highlighted released, this remains an enjoyable and insightful listen/read.

Certainly a great, even mandatory, starting point for anyone and a tale that is still too evident in today's business and IT environments.

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Great read!

The book was great, a very good book about DevOps. Must read for those in Software Engineering.

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A great book well narrated

Great narrator that makes it an easy listen to with different character voices but not in a too silly way.
The book is a must-read for anyone interested in lean, agile, devops ways of working.

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Great story, ok performance

Great story and believable characters and plot twists. Performance was ok but jumped into different recordings (different audio setup so the whole tone sounded different) quite often. Shame.

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