The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene KimMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
“The Phoenix Project” gave me what I was expecting – a story of a couple of months in the life of an earnest low-level IT manager thrust into an IT disaster-in-the-making and solving his companies issues through low-emotion thinking, planning, and negotiating while learning at the feet of an optimization guru. Through the hero’s actions, no one is laid off or outsourced, and his boss looks like a hero to his board and investors. And the hero is rewarded by being promoted out of IT. An IT success story. I enjoyed the way the author wove into the story issues that illustrated the learning path of the hero. The story didn’t suffer too much with the extended descriptions of what the guru was teaching. This is one of those books that would be good to take a few notes on in order to remember the concepts, but there aren’t a lot, and the afterward to the book included many helpful sections for further information. This felt a lot like “The Goal”, but with an IT workflow perspective. Entertaining way to learn, or relearn, some workflow optimization.
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