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Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford

The Phoenix Project

Discover how IT and DevOps can rescue your business from chaos and transform operations into a winning engine.
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What Will You Learn?

IT success requires treating technology like manufacturing with flow principles – The Phoenix Project reveals DevOps through compelling narrative.

This comprehensive DevOps transformation summary and main ideas explain:

  • Three Ways - Flow, feedback, and continuous experimentation drive IT performance
  • Four Types of Work - Business projects, internal IT, changes, and unplanned work compete
  • Theory of Constraints - Identify and optimize bottlenecks for system-wide improvement
  • DevOps Culture - Break silos between development and operations for speed



The hidden gem: Their "Wait Time Formula" shows why utilization above 80% kills productivity.

Your Click.Apply.Grow™ journey: Map your value stream tomorrow. Find the constraint. Implement continuous deployment. Organizations adopting DevOps show 208x more frequent deployments.

Flow beats speed.

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About the Author

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford are the IT revolutionaries who taught Fortune 500 companies DevOps through their novel The Phoenix Project.

Kim founded Tripwire (13 years as CTO), while Behr founded IT Process Institute and Spafford directs Gartner research. Their Phoenix Project sold 800,000+ copies, becoming required reading at Amazon, Microsoft, and Target. Created DevOps Enterprise Summit reaching 10,000+ IT leaders annually. The DevOps Handbook influenced $100+ billion in digital transformations. Collectively consulted for Nike, Disney, and Nordstrom.

What sets them apart: They disguised revolutionary IT practices as fiction, making complex DevOps concepts accessible to non-technical executives.

Organizations implementing their Three Ways achieve 200x more frequent deployments with 60x fewer failures.

The trio who saved IT from itself through storytelling.

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