Waterstones The Unicorn Project
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Description: The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling The Unicorn Project!' The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project." | ??FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas' Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how . the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all." | ??DR. STEVEN SPEAR, author of The High-Velocity Edge, Sr. Lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC.' The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!"--CORNELIA DAVIS, Vice President Of Technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., Author of Cloud Native Patterns This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development. In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies. The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms | ??this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty.and opportunity.' The Unicorn Project provides insanely useful insights on how to improve your technology business." | ??DOMINICA DEGRANDIS, author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop | ?? | ?? | ??' My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together." | ?? Gene Kim, November 2019.
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Product ID: 9781942788768
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Author: Timothy Ball
Rating: 5
Review: Following the story of a developer as she deals with the ups and downs of working for Parts Unlimited. This story really gets you to engage with the characters and their battles to look after the future of the company. Facing regular upsets from the short sighted evil empire, they come up with genius ways to improve the company for the employees and customers. As a developer I have loved learning what not to do, and have been given many ideas of how to improve daily working life. As a general reader I have loved the emotional rollercoaster. It's helpful to have read Phoenix project first, but only to have a greater appreciation for some of the characters who feature in both books.
Author: Safa246
Rating: 2
Review: As an IT exec with deep experience of business and system transformation programmes, and having adopted XP back in the day, and Devops and Agile / Scrum more recently, the basics here feel solid, but the actual timelines and implementations are cloud cuckoo land. E.g: The data warehouse hasn't produced any decent reports in 3 years, but the same people now suddenly adopt a data lake / NoSQL / Hadoop solution and in two weeks the end-users are producing amazing, accurate and complete analysis set to drive a massive profitability boost. Yeah, right! Or quickly replacing the custom-built HR system with a SAAS solution, migrating all the data and training the users (in 2 weeks, again) resulted in amazing productivity gains and reduced total cost of ownership by $100k's per year. Easy! And so it goes, throughout the book. Ive no argument with the underlying premis that replacing complex legacy by modularising, introducing data bus / api's and detaching small elements is the way to go. But it ain't easy, especially with 100 intertwinded systems. Or quick. Especially when it has to be done while keeping the "boeing in the air". No ability to ground the planes in a normal business scenario. My big fear is that executives without proper grounding in tech, will read this and then assume that their IT is dragging their feet, or worse useless (although if they haven't adopted some of the new internal processes they just might be!). Its complex, guys, it requires real business ownership and it takes time and resources.
