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title: "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014"
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published: "2016-10-29T06:56:33.004000+00:00"
updated: "2016-10-29T06:56:33.004000+00:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014: a book recommended on Pipeline Driven by Roy Osherove."
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# The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014

Books

- [![Cover: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/phoenixproj-1806ac.jpg)](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/996b9gc085i16jh6htuycp8z0p2kqc)

    ## [The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Paperback – October 16, 2014](https://pipelinedriven.org/enterprise-devops-books-list/996b9gc085i16jh6htuycp8z0p2kqc)

    A seminal book that helps explain what everyday IT organizations go through. A bit dated but still very relevant, it helps to explain lean concepts and the theory of constraints as applied to the IT business. Based off of the ideas in the book "The Goal" also mentioned on this web page.

    [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2fgnJgo)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/