The Unicorn Project, DataOps Excerpt by Gene Kim

Cover of Wall Street Journal Bestseller "The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data" by Gene Kim, author of "The Phoenix Project"

 

Chapter 14 Excerpt Project Panther & 'DataOps'

The Unicorn Project's heroine Maxine, a senior lead developer & architect, is exiled to the Phoenix Project - to the horror of her friends & colleagues - as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage.

She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless & uncaring bureaucracy & to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork & approvals.

Read this excerpt to see how Maxine navigates Project Panther with DataOps principles to save the day for her company.

To purchase a full copy of the novel, visit the publisher site IT Revolution.