The Phoenix Project: A Novel About It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – 3 September 2024

Awesome literature, while this is about a journey of an IT department in a fictitious enterprise, it is no less than a thriller. Felt like watching a movie on the edge of my seat. Its difficult to keep it down, highly engaging at the same time never diverts away from its core theme, great technical takeaways. Each character is carefully chosen and crafted to perfection, i felt myself in the middle of these narrations, having lived through these scenes in various forms at various stages.Other than the IT operations processes it demonstrates some great leadership traits and how IT also like any other engineering discipline which needs the rigor and precision of doing things wrong. We tend to blame the technology/process, whereas we conveniently forget the human element in it and that to me is the most critical factor to manage and drive.It takes as the topmost spot in my list of favorite novels, such an easy read yet so informational and engrossing.

Show not tell is the uniqueness of this book. The problems and challenges faced by IT departments can perhaps be summarised in 4-5 bullet points. But doing so does not give the reader, esp the ones from non development backgrounds a firm understanding and the gravity of the challenges at hand.This book takes a show not tell approach as it maps out 'A day in the life of an CIO' superbly, bringing forth the challenges. It takes us thorough a journey of discovery that culminates in DevOps.I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who is struggling to understand the DevOps movement. Especially to the non techie sales and marketing folks.

Full of ideas on how to manage IT in a better way to help business. Must read for all IT professionals.

Nothing interesting. It didn't give any idea to DevOps process. Just a normal Novel telling about struggling Head of IT.

Lots to correlate with life and work for those who are on this field. Key takeaway: We all have a Brent in our organisation on whom so much depends and who needs to be managed well for seamless workfows

Just read about 132 pages of the full 382. Fascinating insights. But unbelievable how s***ty the IT processes are in the first place at this firm. The Sales / Product folks are shown as the evil ones, but what the hell, their expectations are normal professional expectations from an IT team. Developers pushing fixes by the minute, bypassing any version control, no documentation, no testing, no quality assurance - and all this for a live mission critical system. Unbelievable context - but then what do I know? But loving the management learnings though

Highly recommend for someone who doesn't have industry experience. This will will you an insight into how things work. What are the challenges of leadership and how their decisions impact life of all workers.It's an interesting read, however I lost interest by the end., but that may be due to the fact I read it in many installments.

Good