The Phoenix Project: A Novel About It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win

Awesome literature, while this is about a journey of an IT department in a fictitious enterprise, it is no less than a thriller. Felt like watching a movie on the edge of my seat. Its difficult to keep it down, highly engaging at the same time never diverts away from its core theme, great technical takeaways. Each character is carefully chosen and crafted to perfection, i felt myself in the middle of these narrations, having lived through these scenes in various forms at various stages. Other than the IT operations processes it demonstrates some great leadership traits and how IT also like any other engineering discipline which needs the rigor and precision of doing things wrong. We tend to blame the technology/process, whereas we conveniently forget the human element in it and that to me is the most critical factor to manage and drive. It takes as the topmost spot in my list of favorite novels, such an easy read yet so informational and engrossing.

Show not tell is the uniqueness of this book. The problems and challenges faced by IT departments can perhaps be summarised in 4-5 bullet points. But doing so does not give the reader, esp the ones from non development backgrounds a firm understanding and the gravity of the challenges at hand. This book takes a show not tell approach as it maps out 'A day in the life of an CIO' superbly, bringing forth the challenges. It takes us thorough a journey of discovery that culminates in DevOps. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to understand the DevOps movement. Especially to the non techie sales and marketing folks.

Good book for IT managers giving insights on inter departmental dependencies and how to tackle. Good read for budding managers.

Nothing interesting. It didn't give any idea to DevOps process. Just a normal Novel telling about struggling Head of IT.

Lots to correlate with life and work for those who are on this field. Key takeaway: We all have a Brent in our organisation on whom so much depends and who needs to be managed well for seamless workfows

Just read about 132 pages of the full 382. Fascinating insights. But unbelievable how s***ty the IT processes are in the first place at this firm. The Sales / Product folks are shown as the evil ones, but what the hell, their expectations are normal professional expectations from an IT team. Developers pushing fixes by the minute, bypassing any version control, no documentation, no testing, no quality assurance - and all this for a live mission critical system. Unbelievable context - but then what do I know? But loving the management learnings though

Full of ideas on how to manage IT in a better way to help business. Must read for all IT professionals.

Extremely well written book. Portrays the happenings in an IT shop of a Corporation. Realistic depiction of the push , pull and pressure faced by the IT Managers.

Great book, very pleasant to read but also full of interesting cases.

Highly recommend this book for anyone who has any dealings with IT, whether you are a business person, manager or IT professional. Easy to read and understand the concepts since the entire book is an example of implementing DevOps within IT. And the cover is beautiful!

If you work in IT (heck, even if your business has any IT - so that's all of you), then you should read this book. Regardless of your specific role, I'm certain that you'll learn something useful (and more importantly, actionable). I've changed my approach to doing a few things already based on lessons I've taken from the book and I still need to process some more ideas around how to do stuff better. I expect that I'll be reading it at least one more time through so that I don't miss anything that I could make use of. One month ago, I'd never heard about this book. Of all the interesting and useful things that I took away from the Microsoft Global MVP Summit this November, I suspect that this will have the greatest impact. Fellow PowerShell MVP Steven Murawski often talks about DevOps and recommends this book in his presentations. He's such a fan of the book that he brought a bunch of copies to give out and I was very glad to receive one after hearing him extol its virtues. Having read the first few chapters on the flight back from Seattle, on landing I purchased the Kindle edition from Amazon UK so that I could carry it around on my Kindle and phone in order to reduce the barriers to being able to consume it! Personally, I love the approach that this book takes. By encompassing so much useful information about ITSM, DevOps methodologies and much more in a novel with an engaging storyline, I was able to read it much more easily and quickly that many of the dry technical texts that bog down our industry. I think that it also helped me to digest the information and apply it to my work situation more easily, even though I work in a significantly different type of organisation to that in the story. The bottom line is that this isn't just a good book, it's an important book. You should read it at the first available opportunity. We'll all be the better for it.

O livro conta a história do departamento de TI de uma empresa americana. Como o departamento sai do caos total para um fluxo orquestrado, alinhado e entregando valor ao negócio da empresa, que nada tem a ver com TI. É interessante ver que apesar de tratar de uma empresa privada americana, o setor de TI retratado se assemelha a muitos setores de TI do Brasil, incluindo de órgãos públicos. Em fim. O livro é muito bom. Por se tratar de uma história de ficção com personagens interessantes a leitura flui muito bem. A fluidez da leitura é semelhante ao do livro "A meta", que eu também recomendo. Não é um livro que vai te dar detalhes de como resolver os problemas da TI. Muita das soluções adotadas no livro não são tão simples de serem adotadas na vida real. Mas mesmo assim o livro enche o leitor de motivação para ajudar no desafio de promover mudanças em seu local de trabalho!

This book looks like telling about the devops first but actually it tells us trusted relationship among all department is the most important for Business to achieve the goal. I really enjoyed it.