The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – 31 Jul 2016

One of the best things i have read for ages - Oh why did i wait so long to read this book?

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Mr Christopher Lewis

27 January 2017

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Last year Everyone I know in the IT industry kept raving about this book called The Phoenix Project. I didn't even bother to listen or look at the book as I wasn't that interested. I thought it was some sort of life story about some rags-to-riches startup company who now have a multi-million £ turnover.

So fast forward to Jan 2017 and I'm looking at training material for up coming exams and The Phoenix Project pops up as a "when bought with" offer. It's on sale with kindle, so I decided to read the synopsis and realised I totally missed the point about the book.

I click buy and start reading almost straight away, a few days later i can't put it down and try and find every opportunity to read more.

It is one of the best books I have read in a while.

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I cannot recommend this book highly enough

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Charlie Halford

6 June 2014

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This is the best book I've read on applying lean manufacturing processes to IT operations work. What makes is so great is that it is an expertly written, compelling story which leads you on a journey, rather than preaching dry theory.

Anyone with experience in IT will be utterly absorbed by the characters and situations in the story. On more than one occasion I felt like I was actually re-living past experiences, as the authors capture the relationships, motivations and consequences so accurately. With a background of failing IT established (which is made so real by shared experiences), the book slowly leads you through the main characters decision making process, showing you all the successes and failures he makes on the way to truly understanding how to manage the flow of work through his IT operations department.

Again, this book is brilliant, and should be a must-read for anyone either in IT, or in an origination supported by it.

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25 November 2015

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If you work in IT of any sort, you’ll love this book. You’ll spend the first few chapters clearly relating to each and every person often thinking to yourself “I know that guy”. This is a clever story about a fictitious parts company and the burden/issues face through their (mis)use of IT. The book focuses on a newly appointed head of IT and his small team and how he adopts various DevOps approaches to solve long-standing IT issues.
I thought this was a really smart mix of factual IT problems and fictitious storytelling. It’s a really enjoyable and relatable read that I would certainly recommend.

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I never intended to read this book... and couldn't put it down - DevOps by working example

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K. Hood

31 August 2017

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I never intended to read this book. I don't spend all weekend glued to a book about IT... but this gripped me from the blurb onwards, with relate-able events such as an overrunning project, whose scope increases exponentially, resignations, co-workers going AWOL, poisonous managers, human bottlenecks, under-investment, etc., And none of this explains why I had so many late nights, and my husband thought I was being as mad, as when I entered the cats in a cat show or took 6 kids on the coast-to-coast... It is a great evangelising tool for DevOps. It explains the concepts by using the Phoenix project as a working example, and you must read it (even if you think you know it all after 20+ years in web development).

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Page 296 and 297 are of particular interest ;)

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Amazon Customer

12 December 2017

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Essential reading for anyone in IT who needs to understand a little around the background and history of DevOps and how to adopt the 'three ways' to reduce technical debt, elevating your Dev to Ops constraints, while amplifying feedback loops and ensuring trust and collaboration between all teams. Recommended along with viewing the Flickr '10+ Deploys per Day' Velocity conference presentation in 2009 that is mentioned on pages 296 and 297 which helped to kickstart the DevOps movement.

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