The Phoenix Project

Cover of The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford

Operations fiction that makes the invisible work of IT impossible to ignore.

Why it’s here

This is the bridge from Goldratt’s theory of constraints into modern technology work: incidents, projects, security, releases, and the people caught between them.

Ideas worth keeping

  • Make work visible before trying to fix it.
  • Protect the flow of customer-facing work.
  • Build feedback loops into every handoff.

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The Goal for the underlying system lens, then Team Topologies for a sustainable operating model.

Lenses: Technology · Work & Systems · Leadership · Stories

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