Books by Gene Kim

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The Unicorn Project

by Gene Kim
333 pages - - 4 MB New!

The Unicorn Project is the system administration, recovery, business production and workplace behaviour guide which shares the useful techniques to execute large and complex projects on time. Gene Kim is the author of this fabulous book. Billions of dollars wasted every year in the development phase when projects are tested by the testers. Sometimes the project runs out of time and out of budget from both stakeholders and the developers. What are the common mistakes that companies made while working on big projects? Did these companies lack resources, hire an unprofessional team, not having enough time or any other reason?

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win PDF

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
333 pages - - 23.3 MB New!

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is a business book masquerading as a work of fiction. Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford are the authors of this book. It may seem odd that this is executed as a fictional story but this serves as a perfect vehicle to convey in very pointed ways the result of a lot of real world research. The road to operational excellence, compliance and higher levels of security in IT isn’t easy and this story accurately, albeit sometimes simplistically, showcases that fact. But more importantly it also gives us the tools and mental preparation to make a decision. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone in IT management and for anyone in senior leadership. It should be recommended reading for anyone in management at a mid-sized to large company as well. The book incorporates outstanding illustrations of production, Lean principles, Agile concepts, project management and change management best practices, etc., etc. in an easily understandable way. Despite its size, the book keeps your attention from cover to cover. Overall, it is an enjoyable read with plenty of applicable business concepts and practical wisdom.

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The DevOps Handbook

by Gene Kim, Ajit, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, John Allspaw
333 pages - - 4 MB New!

“The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations” is an amazing book that gives some DevOps practices to increase profitability in business management. The authors of this book are Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, and John Allspaw. Gene Kim is multiple award-winning entrepreneurs. His passion is about IT operations, security, and compliance. Jez Humble is an award-winning author and researcher on software who has spent his career tinkering with code. Patrick Debois is an independent IT-consultant who is bridging the gap between projects and operations by using Agile techniques. John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. He writes six IBM Redbooks for IBM enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems. The last one John Allspaw. He has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. John also built the back infrastructures at Salon.com, Friendster, Flicker, and InfoWorld.com. “The DevOps Handbook” provides best practices to help organizations teams to achieve common goals. Furthermore, The authors explain how high-performing companies take advantages through these principles and win the marketplace. All in all, The DevOps Handbook is very helpful for all business management.