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 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. "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
