The Phoenix Project ^{2nd Ed.}

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.

The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety 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. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

• Part 1
1. Tuesday, September 2
2. Tuesday, September 2
3. Tuesday, September 2
4. Wednesday, September 3
5. Thursday, September 4
6. Friday, September 5
7. Friday, September 5
8. Monday, September 8
9. Tuesday, September 9
10. Thursday, September 11
11. Thursday, September 11
12. Friday, September 12
13. Monday, September 15
14. Tuesday, September 16
15. Wednesday, September 17
16. Thursday, September 18
• Part 2
17. Monday, September 22
18. Tuesday, September 23
19. Tuesday, September 23
20. Friday, September 26
21. Friday, September 26
22. Monday, September 29
23. Tuesday, October 7
24. Saturday, October 11
25. Tuesday, October 14
26. Friday, October 17
27. Tuesday, October 21
28. Monday, October 27
29. Monday, November 3
• Part 3
30. Monday, November 3
31. Monday, November 3
32. Monday, November 10
33. Tuesday, November 11
34. Friday, November 28
35. Friday, January 9
• The Phoenix Project Resource Guide
• Introduction
• Why Do DevOps?
• Where Do DevOps Came From
• The Three Ways Explained
• Top DevOps Myths
• The Four Types of Work
• Further Reading
• Notes

A book in the tradition of The Goal/The Race etc. A bit goofy, but written so anyone should be able to understand the concepts.

What is most surprising is that it is really well written and achieves its goals very well, i.e. to teach you about DevOps. OK, you can be a bit irritated over the hero worshiping style sometimes, but it works.

Absolutely recommended reading if you're into IT, at whatever level!