Gene Kim

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the fifth anniversary edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the best-selling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in 90 days, or else Bills entire department will be outsourced.

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on it's head, the 3rd edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes new research, a new foreword, and a sneak peek at the next project from Gene Kim and Jez Humble. Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited. In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

This is a companion transcript of the audio series, Beyond The Phoenix Project, intended to be used for reference and to enable further research of cited material, and not as a standalone work.In the audio series, Gene Kim and John Willis present a nine-part discussion that includes an oral history of the DevOps movement, as well as discussions around pivotal figures and philosophies that DevOps draws upon, from Goldratt to Deming; from Lean to Safety Culture to Learning Organizations.The book is a great way for listeners to take an even deeper dive into topics relevant to DevOps and leading technology organizations.

***Over a half-million sold! And available now, the Wall Street Journal Bestselling sequel The Unicorn Project***Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book.TIM OREILLY, Founder & CEO of OReilly MediaThe Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT.JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc.Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution.In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bills entire department will be outsourced.With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, theyll never view IT the same way again.This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions.JEZ HUMBLE, Co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise, Accelerate, and The DevOps Handbook

The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Wall Street Journal bestselling The Unicorn Project!The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix ProjectFERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, AdidasGene 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 PatternsThis 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 loomsthis 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 TasktopMy 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

Bill, an ITmanager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bills entire department will be outsourced.With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow, streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, theyll never view IT the same way again.

Elegant and simple. Its a teachers best companion?a lesson plan for teaching the theory of performance. ?Adm. John Richardson (ret.), from his foreword to the bookThis book is a must-read that deeply informs leaders on how to create great systems for outstanding performance and to win. ?Jeffrey K. Liker, PhD, author of The Toyota Way, 2nd editionShingo Publication Award Winner, a 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, and shortlisted for the 2024 Business Book Award. Forget vision, grit, or culture. Wiring the Winning Organization reveals the hidden circuitry that drives organizational excellence. Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problem-solving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.Wiring the Winning Organization shines an investigative light on some of the most famous organizations, including Toyota, Amazon, Apple, and NASA, revealing how leaders create the social wiring that enables exceptional results. This is not feel-good inspiration or armchair philosophy but a data-driven prescriptive playbook for creating excellence grounded in real-world results and proven theory. This is the rare business book that delivers concrete tools?not platitudes?to convert mediocrity into mastery.All organizations, large and small, public and private, are overwhelmed by complexity, multiple priorities, conflicting goals, shifting landscapes, and constrained resources. Kim and Spear lay out an amazing vision of the social circuitry for organizations to not only handle this but thrive while doing so. ?Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer, Google Cloud; former Board Director, Goldman Sachs BankThis book clearly teaches you how to rewire your organization to move with focused, sustained urgency and win! ?Courtney Kissler, SVP Customer and Retail Technology, StarbucksIn a world where complexity is the norm, Kim and Spear provide the essential guide for those in need of a compass for the maze of todays business environment. ?David Silverman, CEO of CrossLead, co-author of Team of Teams

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier.Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax. They can now describe what they want and watch it materialize instantly. Welcome to the futureVibe Coding. In this groundbreaking book, industry veterans Steve Yegge (Google, Amazon, Sourcegraph) and WSJ bestselling author Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook) reveal how vibe coding is transforming software development as we know it. By leveraging the power of AI assistancewhere intent and flow matter more than syntaxdevelopers can achieve unprecedented levels of productivity, creativity, and joy. Drawing from decades of combined experience in software engineering and developer productivity, Yegge and Kim demonstrate how Vibe Coding enables developers to: Transform complex programming challenges into fluid conversations with GenAI. Build more ambitious projects faster while maintaining code quality you can be proud of. Achieve incredible things yourself that otherwise would require a team. Master the art of co-creating with your AI companion. Break free from traditional programming constraints such as syntax and setup. Build confidently in multiple programming languages and frameworks youve never used before. But this isnt just about coding fasterits about fundamentally changing how we approach software development. The authors share practical strategies for implementing GenAI-powered development in real-world scenarios, from small projects to enterprise-scale applications, while maintaining the engineering excellence that modern systems demand. Whether youre a seasoned developer looking to stay ahead of the AI revolution, a technical leader guiding your team through this transformation, a former coder returning after a break, or someone just starting their career, this handbook provides the roadmap you need to thrive in the new era of software development. Dont get left behind in the biggest transformation our industry has seen since the internet revolution. Learn how to harness the power of vibe coding and unlock your full potential as a developer.2026 Axiom Book Awards Gold Medal Winner

¿Cómo podemos aplicar la tecnología para impulsar el valor de negocio? Durante años, nos han dicho que el rendimiento de los equipos de entrega de software no importa, que no puede proporcionar una ventaja competitiva a nuestras empresas. A lo largo de cuatro años de investigacion rigurosa, que incluye datos recopilados de los informes de State of DevOps llevados a cabo con Puppet, la doctora Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble y Gene Kim se propusieron encontrar una manera de medir el rendimiento de la entrega de software, y aquello que la impulsa, mediante el uso de metodos estadisticos rigurosos. Los resultados son revolucionarios.Acelerar representa tanto los hallazgos como la ciencia que hay tras la investigacion de la doctora Forsgren, Humble y Kim, y permite a los directores tecnologicos de todos los niveles ver, evaluar y utilizar aplicaciones de exito para el crecimiento de sus propias organizaciones. Descubra como medir el rendimiento de sus equipos y en que capacidades debe invertir para impulsar un rendimiento aun mayor.

Gene Kim regresa al despiadado mundo de Parts Unlimited con 'El Proyecto Unicornio'. La empresa está a punto de naufragar y es probable que sea la próxima víctima del apocalipsis minorista. El Proyecto Fenix, en el que todo el mundo tiene puestas sus esperanzas de supervivencia, tambien parece condenado al desastre. Despues de que la culpen injustamente de un fallo en el sistema de nominas, Maxine, una desarrolladora del mas alto nivel, es exiliada al Proyecto Fenix. Una vez alli, descubre que los equipos de desarrollo estan sometidos a una presion enorme para realizar sus entregas, paralizados por una cultura de miedo y culpa, y ahogados, desde hace casi una decada, por la negligencia y la deuda tecnica. En su esfuerzo por alcanzar la excelencia, Maxine lucha contra una burocracia impenetrable y una arquitectura de software en la que incluso el cambio mas pequeño parece imposible o provoca resultados catastroficos.Cuando el Proyecto Fenix fracasa, Maxine se propone salvar la empresa con la ayuda de la misteriosa Rebelion. Debe encontrar la forma de acabar con el orden establecido, permitir que los desarrolladores sean productivos y devolver la alegria al trabajo tecnologico, para que Parts Unlimited salga victoriosa en una era de disrupcion digital. Ella utiliza los Cinco Ideales para poner en marcha el Proyecto Unicornio y transformar la manera en que el negocio y la tecnologia trabajan juntos. Mediante la movilizacion de la organizacion para aprovechar el Big Data, los Rebeldes trabajan para ejecutar su ingenioso plan. ¿Sera suficiente para salvar a Maxine y Parts Unlimited?En esta continuacion del best seller 'The Phoenix Project', Maxine lucha por crear una organizacion de aprendizaje dinamico para reactivar la innovacion, mientras se enfrenta a una jerarquia inflexible y reacia a asumir riesgos, porque sabe que solo aquellos con mayor capacidad para adaptarse pueden sobrevivir en estos tiempos de incertidumbre sin precedentes y de oportunidades.