The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Learn how DevOps principles transform dysfunctional IT into a business-enabling powerhouse through this gripping novel about survival, transformation, and operational excellence.

Who This Is For

VP and Director-level IT Operations leaders driving organizational change. DevOps and Platform Engineering managers selling transformation initiatives to skeptical stakeholders. Infrastructure automation leaders and SRE team leads who need executive buy-in. CIOs and CTOs in mid-to-large enterprises navigating digital transformation.

Key Takeaways

• Visualize all work using Kanban boards to expose bottlenecks and prevent invisible work from derailing planned initiatives.
• Identify your constraint resources and ruthlessly protect them from unplanned work to maximize overall system throughput.
• Implement automated deployment pipelines with fast feedback loops to reduce deployment time from months to minutes.
• Establish work-in-progress limits across teams to prevent context switching and improve flow through the value stream.
• Schedule improvement time into every sprint—technical debt repayment isn’t optional, it’s essential for sustainable velocity.