Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Summary: Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
    Summary: Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
    Summary: Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
    Ebook56 pages17 minutes

    Summary: Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

    By Sarah Fields

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    As Parts Unlimited IT manager Bill is driving to his office on a Tuesday morning, he gets a call from the CEO. The call is about the Phoenix Project. It is Parts Unlimited’s new IT initiative and it's critical to the future of the company. However, the project is way over budget and very late. The CEO is 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 requires Bill to directly report to him. He needs Bill to fix the mess in ninety days or less. If he fails, the entire department will be outsourced. Bill gains a new perspective on IT work and how it is very common to a manufacturing plant. A prospective board member teaches Bill about the philosophy of The Three Ways. In an entertaining fast-paced style, the three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver the story of The Phoenix Project. Anyone who works in IT can relate to the story and readers will never view IT the same way again.


    In this comprehensive look into The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, you'll gain insight with this essential resource as a guide to aid your discussions. Be prepared to lead with the following:


    Discussion aid which includes a wealth of prompts and information


    Overall plot synopsis and author biography


    Thought-provoking discussion questions for a deeper examination


    Creative exercises to foster alternate “if this was you” discussions


    And more!


     


    Disclaimer: This is a companion guide based on the work The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim and is not affiliated to the original work or author in any way. It does not contain any text of the original work. If you haven’t purchased the original work, we encourage you to do so first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHSP
    Release dateNov 14, 2018
    Summary: Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

    Read more from Sarah Fields

    Related to Summary

    Related ebooks

    Book Notes For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      How to Lead With Empathy

      Oct 1, 2017

      My first boss was a bully. Just before I started working for him, a rumor circulated that he’d once thrown a desk out the window. Maybe the story was apocryphal, but it didn’t feel that way to those of us under his thumb. He would yell and curse. We

      2 min read

    • Article

      How Top Performers Achieve More

      Sep 1, 2018

      We studied 5,000 managers and employees—across corporate America, seeking to answer a fundamental question: Why do top performers perform better in their job than others? What we found surprised us: The top performers across organizations actually wo

      6 min read

    • Article

      Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

      Feb 2, 2022

      “The great resignation” is one of those phrases that has been so over-used recently that even writing it makes me cringe a little as it creeps toward cliché. But it does effectively describe the interesting trend of people using the return to the off

      4 min read

    • Article

      Pandemic Schemes

      Jul 10, 2020

      Pandemic Schemes
      13 min read

    • Article

      PhonePe: Life Beyond UPI

      Dec 10, 2020

      PhonePe: Life Beyond UPI
      5 min read

    • Article

      Coaching Exercises

      Jul 14, 2020

      Look at the list below and score each thought pattern between 1 and 10 (1 being ‘doesn’t apply to me’ and 10 being ‘this has got my name all over it’). If you have any high scores (greater than 6), consider doing some personal development work to exp

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Roots of Entrepreneurial Success

      Jan 1, 2020

      You have been involved in start-ups for many years as a founder, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. In your experience, does entrepreneurship demand specific traits, or can anyone with a great idea do it? I don’t subscribe to the idea that it t

      6 min read

    • Article

      Louis Camassa

      Oct 30, 2020

      Louis Camassa
      10 min read

    • Article

      Questions for Kate Sweetman, MIT Centre for Entrepreneurship

      Jan 1, 2018

      What does it mean for a business to exist in the age of Uber? In essence, it means that change can come from anywhere, that it is often technology-driven, and that it often necessitates a new business model. This is what we are seeing, over and over

      6 min read

    • Article

      Taming Your Tech Talent

      Mar 1, 2017

      ETELKA LEHOCZKY WHEN ANASTASIA LENG QUIT Google to start Hatch.co, a shopping site for handmade goods, in 2012, one of the skills she’d developed at the tech giant proved crucial. Managing some of the world’s best IT talent gave the marketing specia

      2 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Jan 1, 2022

      You believe the time has come to bridge the ‘cultural gulf’ that exists within most organizations. Please explain. Historically, business leaders have had competencies in the physical domain — related to manufacturing and distributing products in an

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Era of Human + Machine Innovation

      Jan 1, 2019

      Interview by Karen Christensen In today's environment, organizations that don't keep up with customers' evolving needs are doomed. What is the best way to get a handle on these evolving needs? The first step in understanding your customers is to acce

      5 min read

    • Article

      Getting The edge

      Feb 25, 2021

      Getting The edge
      7 min read

    • Article

      Leading With Empathy

      Sep 1, 2020

      When some people hear the word empathy being used in a business context, they think ‘What does that have to do with business?’ How do you respond to that mindset? I would argue that empathy has everything to do with business. If you accept that innov

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Summary

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Summary - Sarah Fields

      affiliates.

      Foreword

      Have you ever wanted to improve your understanding of The Phoenix Project? Or perhaps you are simply struggling to learn the subject matter?

      It’s a simple teaching technique that helps students learn and readers to grow. With versatile discussion questions for each major criteria regarding The Phoenix Project, these discussion prompts are designed to help surface crucial discussions that are capable to assist toward thinking and learning on a deeper level.

      Discussion prompts have a positive effect on learning. From simple quizzes to critical thinking, participation in discussions can have significantly higher learning when used first. It’s a simple technique that goes a long way.

      Gain the Help You Need As You:

      ●  Analyze with over 60 + prompts

      ●  Reflect on how the book has made an impact

      ●  Relate to the author and the book’s message

      ●  Question prompts to make the discussion uniquely yours

      Tips on Using Discussion Prompts:

      ●  Readers and students are recommended to write 100-word responses to the prompts. Written answers could be shared in small group discussions.

      ●  Each question can be allotted five minutes to write answers as a way of reviewing notes before shared in small group discussions.

      ●  Use the questions as a template to provide peer feedback and think of your own questions to develop during the discussions to spur creative thinking

      Whether you’re an avid learner set out to reach the best for yourself, or a student struggling to learn the subject matter, these discussion prompts can get you to actively respond as you question, analyze, relate,

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1