From the library
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford, 2013
In one paragraph
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford's novel about IT and business transformation. Follows an IT manager tasked with saving a critical project and demonstrates how to apply manufacturing principles to IT operations, introducing DevOps concepts through an engaging business story.
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Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
Key insights
Four types of work: business projects, internal projects, changes, and unplanned work. The fourth consumes everything if unmanaged.
The Three Ways: flow, feedback, and continual experimentation. In that order, because feedback without flow just reports the jam faster.
The Goal transposed to IT. Constraint thinking applied to a domain that had convinced itself it was different.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Optimizing non-constraint areas instead of bottlenecks
Starting too much work simultaneously
Responding to problems instead of preventing them
Allowing unplanned work to consume all capacity
Measuring activity instead of delivered customer value
The same idea, argued differently
Ryan Deiss
Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy
Peter Drucker
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Published
- 2013
- Category
- Business
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