Book Review And Recommendation – The Phoenix Project
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The Phoenix Project has become the shining start when it comes to IT DevOps. Released in 2013, The Phoenix Project helped usher in the wave of DevOps and Agile methodology in IT departments all over the world. If you an IT professional chances are you have heard of this book or been through some kind of Agile training that has mentioned it. If you haven’t read this book I would highly recommend you do.
This book is told through the eyes of Bill and IT Manager at a company called Parts Unlimited. Here’s the official synopsis:
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It’s Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.
The company’s new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety 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. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same way again.
Even though the book is told through a story this is not a traditional non-fiction novel. This is written by IT operations professionals and reads more like an IT manual, wrapped in a story to help bring understandably context to a complicated technical methodology.
I also added a webinar presentation on DevOps by the author of The Phoenix Project.
Binary Blogger has spent 20 years in the Information Security space currently providing security solutions and evangelism to clients. From early web application programming, system administration, senior management to enterprise consulting I provide practical security analysis and solutions to help companies and individuals figure out HOW to be secure every day.
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