Tag: the phoenix project

The Unicorn Project is the sequel to the ground-breaking book The Phoenix Project. Most people know the story about Bill the IT manager at Parts Unlimited, who is tasked with fixing a ...

I recently had the opportunity to become certified to lead a simulation based on the best-selling IT book, "The Phoenix Project." The Phoenix Project simulation is not a product as much as ...

DevOps ... is a term used to refer to a set of practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of both software developers and information technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. It ...

I’ve just finished reading “The Phoenix Project,” by Kim, Behr and Spafford. To be honest, it was on my reading list but had I not picked up a copy at Camp DevOps ...

What do Chevy V8s and DevOps have in common?  They’re both complex systems with many interactions between their moving parts. The first time I did minor surgery on a Chevy engine I ...

Aside from the many technical manuals on our bookshelves, I bet everyone has a few that are more process or philosophically oriented which hold a special place in our hearts.   To me, ...

I love Gene Kim’s analogy about how all unicorns used to be horses; its  a great visual that I use all the time when encouraging IT organizations to change from thinking “why ...

Reading, “The Goal” was a pivotal event in my career.  More than a decade ago a friend of mine who was an operations professor at Georgia Tech told me it was his ...