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> The Phoenix Project but it just fills me with rage. Why?

• slotrans 4y ago
  The characters are just obviously incompetent and/or malicious. I know it's supposed to be a story about the power of DevOps transformation or whatever but like... you could also just not suck at your job maybe?
  • valbaca 4y ago
    That's so interesting...when I read it I started having micro-panic-attacks because they were describing exact scenarios I've been in and exact people I've worked with. The single-threaded dev and the malicious ladder-climber stood out especially well/poorly.
  • abbadadda 4y ago
    > The characters are just obviously incompetent and/or malicious. Maybe Sarah, but I think the book makes at least three good points: (1) It is challenging to get an organization to change and to stop viewing IT/Ops as a cost center; (2) It is critical that IT/Ops understands how the business works; (3) Getting the organization to the point that The Thee Ways of DevOps are implemented requires cooperation between Dev and Ops to create the feedback loops necessary for both improvement of daily work and continual experimentation. This necessitates buy-in from management to try new things. The book is based on The Goal by Eli Goldrat, and while it may be a bit heavy-handed in the portrayal of some characters, IMO it gets at the point that transforming a company’s culture is hard while also illustrating some of the steps necessary to get there.