独角兽项目 – The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim

本书是运维名著《凤凰项目：一个IT运维的传奇故事》的姊妹篇，从软件开发人员的角度继续讲述无极限零部件公司的故事。玛克辛是开发主管兼架构师，因公司工资系统事故而被“流放”去做凤凰项目的文档工作。在这样一家刚刚度过百年华诞的老牌公司里，在电子商务已然风生水起的当下，玛克辛能否拯救那个已令数百名开发人员深陷其中的项目？作者在本书中提出“五大理念”，并相信有了这五个理念，企业就能打破壁垒、力排万难，在数字化洪流中力挽狂澜。

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 Phoenix Project, Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, is tasked with 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 fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill’s entire department will be outsourced. 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 “red shirt” developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty…and opportunity.

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