From the library
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim, 2019
In one paragraph
A novel of modern software work introducing the Five Ideals—locality and simplicity, focus/flow/joy, improvement of daily work, psychological safety, and customer focus—to achieve fast, safe, value‑driven delivery.
Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
Systems Over Goals
People & Relationships
Systems Over Goals
Key insights
The Five Ideals: locality and simplicity, focus and flow and joy, improvement of daily work, psychological safety, customer focus.
Told from the developer's side, where The Phoenix Project was told from operations. The pair is the point.
Improvement of daily work is more important than daily work, and it is the ideal organisations most consistently defer.
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.
Hero culture over systems
Big‑bang releases
Hidden constraints
Blameful culture
Monolith bottlenecks
The same idea, argued differently
Ryan Deiss
Julie Zhuo
Masaaki Imai
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Gene Kim
- Published
- 2019
- Category
- Business
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