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Fletcher Agency
Melissa Chinchillo
Original language
English

THE PHOENIX PROJECT

A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

An inspiring novel for inspired people in the IT business.
Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It’s Monday 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. Bill is given ninety days to fix the project or his entire department is going to be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that all the work has more in common with a manu- facturing floor than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize how work must be done, streamline the department, and effectively serve 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 learn how to improve their own IT organization and never view IT the same way again.

Gene Kim was founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc. for 13 years, where he started his journey studying high performing IT organizations.

Kevin Behr founded the Information Techniology Process INstitute and has twenty five years of IT management experience, mentoring and advising CEOs and CIOs.

George Spafford is an industry analyst that helps IT organizations better define goals, necessary conditions, and how to attain them.