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The Phoenix Project (A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
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The Phoenix Project (Book): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1942788290/ This book helped me change my career trajectory in a positive way.
This is a great companion to "The Goal" and "The Phoenix Project," both of which use fictional narratives to illustrate best engineering practices in the context of saving a (fictional) business.https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...
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No matter you want to become a manager or architect, you need to know how to run a project.The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
⬐ laurentlI would recommend The Goal (E. Goldratt) over The Phoenix Project. Although The Goal is not about IT, I feel it’s much more didactic on how to identify problems and deal with them. In The Phoenix Project, things kinda fall into place without any deeper reasoning about why they should.
You may be interested in "The Phoenix Project" [0] which tries to apply some lessons from factory management to IT organizations.My biggest take-away (and it's served me well as a team lead) is minimize work in progress (WIP). In practice, that meant encouraging contributors to focus on getting opened PRs reviewed/merged/deployed rather than opening new ones - which has cascading benefits.
A related takeaway is that when resources (engineers, key machines) are planned to be at capacity, they have no slack for dealing with unplanned work, so it's good to plan for resources to be under-utilized at certain times so that they can be more agile.
I've never seen "The Profit" but I'm looking forward to watching it now!
[0] - https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
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