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The Phoenix Project

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The Phoenix Project
Full titleThe Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
AuthorGene Kim
Published2013
Pages345
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listA novel used as a manual: an IT manager inherits a failing project and learns the theory of constraints applied to software delivery. The book that carried DevOps into ordinary enterprises.

Where I heard about it

  • Replies to @WillManidis — recommended in the replies when he asked on X “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025.

Connections

  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • DevOps · Software · Systems Thinking — where this sits in the corpus.
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