Today the e-book “The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim is launched! Since I had written a assessment about his earlier e-book “The Phoenix Project”, I used to be kindly given the chance to learn a beta copy to have the ability to give you a assessment. Here it’s!
Content
In this new e-book Gene Kim re-visits the profitable novel format from “The Phoenix Project”. Once once more we’re again on the firm Parts Unlimited, and the primary character of the story is Maxine Chambers, a Lead Developer and Architect.
Throughout the story, The Five Ideals are defined to the reader, with numerous good examples.
The Five Ideals are:
- Locality and Simplicity
- Focus, Flow, and Joy
- Improvement of Daily Work
- Psychological Safety
- Customer Focus
Back to the story, what occurs in the course of the 19 chapters this e-book include? First there’s a main payroll outage, and the administration must discover a scapegoat, guess who? Maxine is punished by being reassigned to the Phoenix Project, which looks like a jail. Heck, Building 5 at company campus the place they sit, even appears like a jail.
To begin, Maxine desires to get a Phoenix construct working on her laptop computer. But this seemingly straightforward activity is sort of inconceivable, to get by means of infinite layers of forms. Hope is sort of misplaced when she meets Kurt Reznick (a QA Manager at Parts Unlimited) and joins the Rebellion (a bunch of likeminded individuals that wishes to work another way, by residing the The Five Ideals).
They begin off in small scale, overcoming some setbacks throughout the best way, and in the long run they handle to show the corporate profitable once more! Read the e-book to learn the way they did it.
Takeaways
My fundamental takeaways from studying this e-book are:
- The Five Ideals are a pleasant addition to the “Agile arsenal”. Especially Psychological Safety, that I see as a cornerstone for innovation.
- There is numerous speak about unicorns (“A unicorn is a privately held startup firm valued at over $1 billion”). This e-book reveals that an previous massive firm can also, and inevitable should, be like a unicorn to outlive.
- A narrative based mostly on good vs. evil by no means goes out of vogue. This explicit one can be full of references to issues like Star Wars and Game of Thrones 🙂
Recommendation
Gene Kim have an excellent sense for understanding what’s going on, and to see the tendencies, within the IT enterprise. That in contrast together with his writing abilities, creating a really attention-grabbing story, makes this e-book a stable advice! You haven’t learn “The Phoenix Project”, and suppose it’s wanted? No worries, “The Unicorn Project” could be learn as a standalone e-book.
All one of the best,
Tomas from TheAgileist