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The Phoenix Project
- A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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The DevOps Handbook
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- Written by: Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis,
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
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More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater - whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud. And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.
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The Unicorn Project
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Beyond the Phoenix Project
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Gene Kim and John Willis present this nine-part series that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussion around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations.The audiobook is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.
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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
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How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for listeners to apply in their own organizations.
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great insight into devops process
- By Harshvardhan Gupta on 31-08-20
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The definitive account of the Scrum methodology from its cocreator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to health care in major American hospitals. In this major new book, its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.
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Management start with self management, discipline
- By SIDS navigator on 12-02-19
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Transformative, Engaging & Thought provoking
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Beyond the Phoenix Project
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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
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great insight into devops process
- By Harshvardhan Gupta on 31-08-20
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Scrum
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Origins and Science behind Scrum
- By Amazon Customer on 20-11-19
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The Goal
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In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models.
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Management start with self management, discipline
- By SIDS navigator on 12-02-19
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Beyond the Goal
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Since it was first introduced in the multi-million-copy best seller The Goal, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC) has emerged as one of the most flexible and effective approaches to management and problem solving in the corporate world.
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Great Knowledge
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The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
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Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development. Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.
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- By Dinkar Gupta on 23-10-20
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In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century - time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.
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Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.
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Agile Project Management for Dummies
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As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in weeks instead of months. Agile Project Management for Dummies can make that happen. This is the first book to provide a simple, step-by-step guide to Agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques.
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good book for beginners in PM or AGILE.
- By Harshvardhan Gupta on 04-12-20
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Hit Refresh
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As told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella's personal journey, one that is taking place today inside a storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous. It's about how people, organisations and societies can and must hit refresh - transform - in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, relevance and renewal.
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A nice read
- By Jinoj S on 07-10-20
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.
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Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.
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Unmissable !
- By Sanya on 29-10-20
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Measure What Matters
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- Written by: John Doerr
- Narrated by: Jini Kim, Susan Wojcicki, Alex Garden,
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In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from 40 employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.
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Excellent
- By Vinod S. on 20-01-19
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Team of Teams
- New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- Written by: General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins,
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
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When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment and training - but none of the enemy's speed and flexibility. McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom to create a 'team of teams' that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralised decision-making authority.
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One of the top 3 books I have read and listened to
- By Dinkar Gupta on 25-02-21
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Critical Chain
- Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
- Written by: Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Rick Adamson, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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A young, untested team of problem solvers challenged with saving their company moves from board room to classroom in search of answers - and finds them through lively, open discourse with their innovative professor. This gripping, fast-paced business novel does for project management what Eliyahu M. Goldratt's other novels have done for production and marketing.
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review concepts..
- By Anonymous User on 26-05-20
Publisher's Summary
Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the fifth anniversary edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.
Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 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. Listeners will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they’ll never view IT the same.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-06-19
An amazing walk through memory lane
A lot of what's said here is amazingly accurate in real life. I worked at a place between 2017 and 2019 with exactly the same problems described here. This was the situation a few years between 2014 and 2016. This organisation which hardly understood the real devops way of doing business and recruited a lot of people from outside to change this dabbled in AWS, cloud DBs, IaaS and microservices. Their only mistake was to mix poweful people who did not know how to use these tools with people who did. The powerful people kept pushing out people who did understand it because they felt threatened by the massive change required in mindset. This includes the CTO, the various new VPs, and lead architects. The future of this organisation is currently bleek and they have been taken over by someone who cares nothing for devops and who is only bothered to make a quick buck.
If ever there is anyone to blame, it's the company board who kept looking for returns way too early and not putting a check on the top management.
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- Priyanka
- 08-11-20
Loved it
I just loved the way the writers narrated such complex topics so beautifully with memorable characters... must read
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- Shakthi
- 09-10-20
Excellent narrative and thought provoking novel.
A must read for IT guys. Excellent narrative and thought provoking novel. Recommend to re-read.
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- Vikas Khair
- 03-09-20
IT revolution
This book was suggested by the company president in our meetings and I must say this was a wonderful read and insight into the way the work can be managed in modern organizations.
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- Krishnan K.
- 30-06-20
Loved it!
I can relate largely with the transformation. I played the role of Brent and Bill these days 😊
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- Anonymous User
- 19-04-20
great book and fantastic narration
great book and better narration...makes it more interesting and dramatic. a thriller in how IT companies function and transformation taking place!
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- Yogesh Seemakurthi
- 13-02-20
Good book to understand DevOps
Gives a good understanding of DevOps as a culture and why it is essential in IT industry
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- "rkcool"
- 08-02-20
Great insight on Dev Ops in a story format
The story and narration of the day to day activities of a person in IT is very interesting. Given the challenges and finding the solution to the problems are nicely put forward.
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- Amit Jagtap
- 16-01-20
Masterpiece
Must read. provides answers and perspectives into the workings of a software organization which does not think its a software organization.
awesome narration.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-12-19
Must read
Must read or I shall say listen for everyone in IT ( or I shall say in all kind of business).
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- Christopher
- 03-11-15
Better than I thought
I am not an IT guy but a blue collar worker. There is a lot of understanding of processes that translate to everything in the business field.
I would recommend this to everyone who is in any business. It gives good examples of work and problem solving.
Take a chance and listen to, or read this book
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- Peter
- 23-11-15
Theory and Practice merged
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I honestly didn't know a book like this could exist. The format really took me by surprise, but luckily, it was a pleasant one. Essentially it follows a newly promoted IT operations manager as he tries to improve the way the IT department works in his company while struggling with all the bureaucratic challenges that come with higher management positions. The really interesting part though, is that the book goes through a lot of sound theoretical concepts and we see how they're applied practically in the business.
It's still more of a novel in that it has a story and interesting characters that you see grow, which really are the driving force behind this book. The story and setting are relatively basic, but that's actually perfect since it's easier to relate to when there's all the theoretical content to get your head around. It's hard to be too critical of the characters, since again, they're mostly there to make a point and generalize the type of people that you encounter in organizations. That being said, there were some characters and events that were a little too unbelievable, which often broke the sense of realism and made you realize that you're reading a fictional story.
This kind of book would be a great source for students to study from since rarely have I seen theory and practice so closely linked in a book. Usually it's a ton of theory pushed down your throat with a sprinkling of real world examples thrown in. There's definitely some leaps and issues that would have to be addressed, but if anything, that would make it more interesting to disseminate. I'm just a bit worried now that someone reading this thinks they can turn their whole company around in three months.
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- Stacy Stark
- 09-05-15
Wonderful!
If you work in IT, you MUST read this book! It will save your sanity! Having been in IT for my entire career, it hits closer to home than anything I've read before. It's like "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt for IT!
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- Camila Wright
- 22-11-15
I have no idea why I liked it.
I am not in business or IT. this couldn't be further from my field or life. but still, somehow the story was compelling enough that I read it for the pure entertainment and really enjoyed it.
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- Ed Shepherdson
- 13-12-16
Must read for IT professionals
The story line in this book has been repeated thousands of time in many organizations around the world. One of the best books I have read on understanding the importance of understanding your resource constraints and how they impact your whole organization from IT to business functions. Gaining alignment and focus on the right projects is the key to driving your business forward. Book also highlights a lot of Agile principals as well. Good read. Easy to relate to the theme of the book.
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- Kevin King
- 02-05-16
The most gripping novel I have read in a long time
I have been in the help desk, I have been in IT management, I have been in the upper echelons of management and business ownership.
The ideas put forth in this book are groundbreaking for today's economy and will be the groundwork for the highly agile businesses of the 21st Century.
If you want to make progress in your Enterprise and you are getting blowback from your managers, give them this book.
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- Rob Gray
- 25-09-19
This is my organization
We had a “Phoenix project” that went horribly wrong and cost a considerable amount of time, money and effort (much of it heroic) to recover. We learned a little of what is in this book. Had we known about these processes before we may have avoided at least some of the cost. As the saying goes “there’s never enough money to do it right the first time, but there’s always enough to fix/do it right the second time” - and sadly so.
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- Alex Martinez
- 27-08-19
I was surprised at how much I liked this book!
At first, I wasn't sure if I would like this book; however, I was quickly hooked. I highly recommend this book to anyone even if they're not Techie. I'm looking forward to acquiring "Beyond The Phoenix Project" and some of the other books that are mentioned in this work. I'm grateful to Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford for this great work; I'm also looking forward to listing to other Audible books narrated by Chris Ruen who made this audiobook so enjoyable. I'm really glad that my friend recommended it to me.
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- Nikola Zagorac
- 04-06-19
Good content
I didn't like the narration AT ALL. The book is very difficult to listen to and easy to lose focus while listening due to slow nature of the content. i.e. reading out loud email subjects, from, to, priority, timestamps before getting to the message point maybe looks good in a physical book, but it's not so convenient on the audible format.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-08-17
"Blew my mind"
You'll find yourself in the story if you're in IT.This completley changed my thought process when it came to workflow.
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- Matt Williams
- 01-12-15
An example of Audiobooks being better
This is one of those books where reading it would have been much harder than listening to the audiobook. Listening to it being spoken makes it feel a little bit like just overhearing a conversation from a friend or colleague, which is easier to listen to than read. The book is full of office politics, and overcoming problems in an office, so if that type of thing bothers you it's one to avoid, but if you find office politics amusing - or can enjoy the absurdity of it all then it's a book you'll enjoy
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- JSW
- 14-05-15
How IT can help the business WIN
An eye opener. A good read, good therapy, a great mindset and a practical guide.
If you are a passionate practitioner of technology to achieve successful business outcomes then read this book.
8 people found this helpful
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- Mr Anthony Fawkes
- 13-06-15
project management and IT
This is probably one of the best books I've ever listened to. The storytelling is great and helps give you a grounding in IT operations and project management. I whole heartedly recommend this book.
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- Simon
- 27-07-16
Thoughtful Parallels
This book novelises quite successfully a journey of discovery as an IT Manager raises his sights and game to focus on the organisation not the tool. As one character says 'it is not rocket science' but even the obvious point land in unfamiliar ways and I found myself comparing the story to my own organisation. This has a wider application than just IT. It was a pleasure to consider these ways of thinking in the setting of a pretty good novel ableit that some characters seem broadly drawn. That said - the characters were drawn the way you see your colleagues and the story is told first person. A good read and listen.
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- Gareth
- 29-04-20
Good start, but tails off
You start listening to this thinking 'wow, this is like so many large organisations, they've got this spot on' and I think they have. It's brilliant and you can't wait to listen to how they solve the organisation problems so that you can apply some of the lessons in some of the organisations you might work with, Then everything falls into place and they all live happily ever. Perhaps the latter part is over-simplistic. Perhaps I'm just grumpy. I'll let you decide.
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- Pawan
- 12-07-16
A perfect introduction to DevOps
Very well written and naratted.... A great way to explain the problem and then solve it step by step......
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- M. E. Gideon
- 08-07-15
Excellent fable on the role of I.T.in business.
Well worth the listen. Could apply to other functions too but to a lesser extent
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- David L
- 18-12-20
biased and contrived story to push the agile agend
biased and contrived story to push the agile agenda. The company involved is disfunctional to the point of being cringe worthy.
if you want to understand agile just read the principles not a long winded story
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- Mr Anthony Juniper-Nine
- 08-02-17
How true
Would you listen to The Phoenix Project again? Why?
I plan on listening to this audiobook regularly to remind me how to turn a horror into a joy. This book probably sums up most IT companies and their bad practices and how to make them right - this book is a reminder of how to do things properly
Who was your favorite character and why?
Eric is the saviour of this book. He makes comparisons to non-IT departments and shows that a department is just a department - and IT is not sacred at all.
What about Chris Ruen’s performance did you like?
Chris Ruen's delivery was excellent. He wasn't just reading. He got into all the characters - it was super.
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- N. D. Holt
- 11-10-16
Perhaps not for everyone...
While I have enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it, I am sure that it will not be to everyone’s liking.
I'm a software engineer with a strong technical background, and as such I understood easily all the technical references being made. As I was listening to the first couple of chapters I was aware that it may well be a book that has a smaller target audience in that respect.
If you have a technical or busienss background, this is an enjoyable, well written, and insightful book, bringing together the concepts of Agile, Scrum, Lean processes, and Constraints in a thoroughly entertaining manner.
Having just finished the book, I am sure I'll be listening to it again more than once
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- Miti
- 23-05-20
Narrator is very good
I am working in information security team. I liked the story as it seems very real. Narrator is very good.
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- Ruby
- 11-06-15
Interesting story
It is an interesting story and people can gain insights on process management. Narrative is good - worth to listen!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-05-20
Most in IT can relate
Great performance by the narrator, even though the subject matter may appear dry it has been presented in a novel format making it an engaging listen.
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- Reza
- 30-12-19
must-read for everyone in IT
very good narrative on a legendary book. do not miss specially if you think 10 deployment a day will not work for you organisation.
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- Minh Chi Tu
- 11-11-19
the IT story is so relevant
I can so relate to the story and characters in the book. Must read for in the IT industry.
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- Richard
- 06-10-19
great story
this seems to be essential reading for the devops handbook. i was wondering if Bills woes would ever end.
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- Mr. Martyn J. Elvy
- 16-09-19
Sensational & Inspiring!
Not just another boring IT book...
The Pheonix Project is an entertaining story, with characters most business employees can relate to and comes packed with a wealth of knowledge that can benefit people in many types of employment.
However, for anyone working in, working with, or managing IT; or running a business that is looking to grow, in today's modern fast paced world. This book is an absolute must read!
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- Josh
- 24-07-19
very relevant
i really enjoyed this one! very relevant and very real and in my workplace i could relate to real people.
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- Alex Taylor
- 08-07-19
Enlightening
A great book. Well written and well read. An eye opening journey into IT, project management and the importance of systems and processes. I think this book will be beneficial to anyone that has to produce and deliver anything to one. This is much more than a book about IT.
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- Johnny
- 11-06-19
Great story! Voicing needs improvement
What a fantastic story. However, the audio book needs voice actors! Hire some voice actors and the story will be 10 times more immerse.