Tag: the phoenix project
The Power of a Game: What I Learned from Facilitating The Phoenix Project Simulation
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 ...
Simulating DevOps to Discover the ‘Culture Thingy’
contributor | | culture, developers, devops, devops skills, IT operations, IT service management, leadership, simulation, the phoenix projectDevOps ... 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 ...
Lean versus the bandwagon, lean wins
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 ...
Systems of Things
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 ...
My DevOps Bookshelf
Ben Good | | ben good, continuous delivery, etsy, gene kim, jez humble, kevin behr, the phoenix project, web operationsAside 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, ...
Don’t Fear, Testing Team! DevOps is here!
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 ...
DevOps and The Goal
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 ...