Title: The Unicorn Project Pdf A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes The Unicorn Project!
"The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project..." (Fernando Cornago, senior director platform engineering, Adidas)
"Gene 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 Patterns)
This highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling 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 looms - this 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.
Another great read. Yet again, Gene Kim challenges how we perceive legacy IT - in this case from the perspective of developers. Written as a narrative rather than a technical novel, it conveys the concepts of The Five Ways. Written from the viewpoint of application development, it speaks more to the product and application side of IT than The Phoenix Project. This may be more challenging to some within IT, but that is a good thing - this book should help us share the challenges almost any organization has, and how to look at them in ways that create solutions. This book is filled with more concepts and stories to challenge thinking and should inspire many about ways to evolve their organizations.Rough start, for me at least, but good finish Finished "the Unicorn Project" last night, and I have mixed feelings about it. At first I had a real hard time getting into it - the main character, Maxine, just seemed like a complete Mary-Sue and characters from "The Phoenix Project" seemed to have completely changed personality, and not for the better. Also the perspective of the book changed to 3rd person so it was less personal.About 1/4 to 1/3 of the way in the action picked up and the characters started to encounter issues in cloud migration, data-lakes, digital transformation, organizational silos, and management that I deal with everyday and I started sympathizing more - and my opinion of the book became FAR more positive. By the end I was glad to see the rebellion won and Parts Unlimited was saved, but honestly at a couple points (when Erik kept referring to everyone as Sensei for example), I was kind of hoping Sarah would.Overall it was a decent enough books with some good lessons for people trying to help transform a company, and I would recommend it. (Oh and by the end I actually liked Maxine but that was not a guaranteed outcome she was really annoying initially)Great insights & 5 points, buried in a lot of other stuff. I liked this significantly less than the 5*, highly, highly recommended Phoenix Project. I do not work in IT, but I am from the continuous improvement / Lean world in the office, and I'm always looking for other perspectives.Pros:- Good story. I did find Maxine's story engaging and relatable. We've all been in a bureaucratic nightmare, and it's almost always of our own creation.- The 5 points / maxims are great discussion points with organizations. I don't see them as limited to only developers; anyone who works in an office environment can read and get those, and we all feel the pain when we don't flow.Cons:- The biggest miss was burying the content too deeply in the story. The 5 points / maxims were referred to quite a few times, but not in a complete and structured way. I would have loved to see something at the end of chapters to call them out and reinforce where they were used in that chapter. Further - there were a couple other interesting topics buried in the book - Horizon 1, 2, and 3 - that were discussed but never fully explained other than a description. I was very interested in this and definitely wanted to know more.- At times it was very deep in the weeds about specific technical issues. For the narrative, it worked, but it seemed to hide the overall concept.- Erik referring to everyone as Sensei XXX was annoying to me. Minor thing but ugh.
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