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description: The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling 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 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 Tasktop  My 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 
language: English
title: The Unicorn Project
publisher: IT Revolution Press