The Unicorn Project:Micro Review
Gene Kim has come up with his follow up to “The Phoenix Project” — “The Unicorn Project”. I just put this down and I can tell you that this a must read for every leader in Enterprise IT whether they are starting, in the middle of or oblivious of digital transformation.
As Phoenix project gave rise to the “The Three Ways”, The Unicorn Project gives rise to “The Five Ideals”.
The book is written as a novel that charters the path of Maxine (an engineer) who navigates through the IT value stream in a large Enterprise and hits one constraint after another but unfazed rolls her sleeves up to alleviate them. I can probably guarantee that almost every single one of her stories will resonate with you no matter where you sit in the organization.
The challenges & situations sometimes feel a little exaggerated for effect but they do succeed in having the effect !!!
Gene does an amazing job of bringing together many of the themes and concepts related to digital transformation today — Fast Feedback Loops, Developer Productivity, project funding, emergent architecture, functional programming, tech debt, Wardley Maps, BizDevOps, Platforms, 3 Horizons and the list goes on.
Like I said, a must read.
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