White and first published in english by the university of illinois press in 1953. This fascination expanded to rockets and space flight, as he was deeply influenced by his mentor hermann oberth, considered to be the. And gene, kevin and george are some of the nicest guys in it. Summary of the phoenix project meet your next favorite book. Project is very realistic, with an entertaining cast of characters that. Described as a business novel, or the goal for the 21st century, the book focuses on a story that large organisations need to realise when they feel they need to transform it. Shifting from oil to hydrogen, a book by harry braun project phoenix seti or phoenix project, a search for extraterrestrial intelligence in radio signal patterns. That should be enough to convince you people are liking this book. The phoenix project ebook by gene kim 9780988262584. The landing site was the icecapped northern polar region in the green valley of vastitas borealis.
Kevin behr is the founder of the information technology process institute itpi and the general manager and chief science officer of praxis flow llc. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win, coming out in january 15, 20, has been one of the most rewarding projects ive ever worked on. So i dont think you have to read it unless you want relaxing reading about devops domain. The pheonix project is an it management fable, the characters are for the. Working on a martian project is no joke and is not easy. Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on mars under the mars. Jan 05, 2016 the phoenix project, written by gene kim, kevin behr, and george spafford, is about a fictional autoparts company, parts unlimited, with retail outlets nationwide. This books should be mandatory reading for anyone involved in managing it work. Jan 30, 2014 book introduction bill is an it manager at parts unlimited. Cfo sarah moulton, svp of retail operations maggie lee, senior director of retail program management bill selection from the phoenix project book. The second part of the book details how the it group is reborn from the ashes of the phoenix project into a highperforming organization that is a strategic partner to the business. Jez humble, coauthor of the jolt awardwinning book continuous delivery and principal at thoughtworks studios this book is the modern day version of the goal.
I can recommend you devops handbook, but if you have some experience integrating devops culture in your organization, you might find it boring. He is the coauthor with gene kim and george spafford of the. A new image transmitted by nasas mars reconnaissance orbiter shows signs of severe ice damage to the landers solar panels. Top 10 needlessly sexualized female movie characters duration. The companys new it initiative, code named phoenix project, is critical to the future of parts unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late.
Newspaper reports reveal the poor financial performance of the. Mars 2 1971 and mars 3 1971 operated successfully, but were unable to map the surface due to dust storms. You may have seen similar plots and characters before, but they work in the w. The phoenix project is about a large public company that just cant seem to get things. As soon as i started evaluating the phoenix project in the context of a business book, rather than fiction, i started enjoying it a lot more, gaining much more insight into the concepts presented, rather than focusing on the unsophisticated prose and highly contrived. This parable of an it project on the brink of destruction is told with humor and insight.
Phoenix thrusters blasted away martian soil and exposed water ice. Last week, nasas mars odyssey orbiter flew over the phoenix landing site 61 times during. Phoenix studied the martian soil with a chemistry lab, tega, a microscope, a conductivity probe and cameras. Bearing the tonguetwisting title the phoenix project. Proposed mars one 2018 mission will build a new phoenix like lander from scratch to test technologies for extracting water into a useable form for future human colonists. The phoenix project devops simulation is a one day interactive workshop. The latest book on our cio reading list is the phoenix project.
The 2008 lander image left shows two relatively blue spots on either side corresponding to the spacecrafts clean circular solar panels. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win book online at best prices in india on. In the 2010 right image scientists see a dark shadow that could be the lander body and eastern solar panel, but no shadow. The pheonix project is an it management fable, the characters are for the most part extreme. The phoenix project, a 2015 film directed by tyler graham pavey the phoenix project. Nasas viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of mars in 1976, the first. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win was quite a hard one to pick up for me personally. The phoenix project is a novel that first describes the problems that almost. The phoenix mars lander was the first under nasas new mars scout program to send a series of small, lowcost, low complexity and higher frequency robotic missions to mars. Phoenixs preliminary science accomplishments advance. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win. The phoenix project official trailer 1 2015 scifi movie. The phenomenally popular mars phoenix lander mission has officially come to an end. Two images of the phoenix mars lander taken from martian orbit in 2008 and 2010.
The phoenix mars lander should soon be providing new data on water and climate, now that it has survived the harrowing descent to the red planet. A new space explorer is waiting in the wings and ready to take center stage. Phoenix mars lander is silent, new image shows damage may 25, 2010 nasas phoenix mars lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. Its tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, bill gets a call from the ceo. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win, its like the goal in that its written as a novel about the people in a large it shop and how theyre faced will all the usual soulcrushing bs that we all get faced with, but use lean and devops and pluck and courage to. The phoenix mars lander was the first mission to explore the arctic region of mars at ground level. Gene kim is the former ceo of tripwire, a security management software company. A team of 812 students will act in the context of the book by gene kim et al the phoenix project and will experience. Phoenix not only met the tremendous challenge of landing safely, it accomplished scientific investigations on 149 of its 152 martian days as a result of dedicated work by a talented team, said phoenix project manager barry goldstein at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, calif. He is the founder of tripwire and served as cto for thirteen years. The phoenix project is an importantenough book to warrant taking the time to discuss what those problems are. It was translated from the original german by henry j. Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on mars under the mars scout program.
Karate kid meets devops i just finished reading the phoenix project by gene kim, kevin behr, and george spafford and it is one of the most thoughtprovoking it books ive read in recent years. May 25, 2010 two images of the phoenix mars lander taken from martian orbit in 2008 and 2010. The phoenix project is an allegorical tale of devopsthe needs, the transition, and the business impactas told through the main character, bill palmer, who has recently been named vp of it operations, much against his will. Phoenix uses hardware from a spacecraft built for a 2001 launch that was canceled in response to the loss of a similar mars spacecraft during a 1999 landing attempt. Field of mars is a novel about 28yearold kyla marshall who works in. Arms, cowboy spacemen, and my 90 days with the phoenix mars mission. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to assess the local habitability and to research the history of water there. Researchers who proposed the phoenix mission in 2002 saw the unused spacecraft as a resource for pursuing a new science opportunity.
The phoenix project uses a contrived narrative to deliver it best practices like a mother would use applesauce to hide peas while spoonfeeding a toddler. The state of technologymanagement books might have been different five years ago, but i found the overthetop nature insulting to the intelligence of the intended demographic. Gene kim is an author, a researcher and an awardwinning chief technology officer. The phoenix project is kind of a fiction book imho. The second and last mission in the series was maven launched in 20. Unlike many other works in this space, the phoenix project is also a fast paced enjoyable read. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win written by gene kim, kevin behr, and george spafford gives you great insights how to improve the success rate of your it organization by transforming your organisation in a devops like organisation to deliver much faster more than 10 deployments a day, still staying compliant and with less errors, the. In the last 25 years, he has helped many it organizations do business better. Gene kim is a multiaward winning cto, researcher, and author. Jan 10, 20 the phoenix project will have a profound effect on it, just as dr. Set for launch aboard a delta ii rocket, phoenix s assignment is to dig through the martian soil and ice in the arctic region and use its onboard scientific instruments to analyze the samples it retrieves. Project mars is, in essence, a primer on elementary spaceflight. The phoenix project can anyone point to a good synopsis. The phoenix project pdf summary gene kim 12min blog.
Description the phoenix mission has officially ended, its last signal was received on 2 november, 2008. The phoenix project official trailer 1 2015 scifi movie hd. The book was an entertaining read andor listen and the authors cleverly couch the concepts of devops into a story about a failed delivery system the phoenix project built ala waterfall, versus a new system hastily assembled heh, see what i did there. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win the story is about bill, an it manager, suddenly promoted from director of midrange technology operations to vp of it. Dec 17, 2014 the phoenix project official trailer 1 2015 scifi movie hd.
The simulation game is based upon the phoenix project book. Originally slated for a mere 90 days near the martian north pole, clever. Worldwide methemedia mars scoopme the media archived may 11, 2011, at the wayback machine. Nasa mars phoenix lander finishes successful work on red planet. His books include the phoenix project, the devops handbook, the visible ops handbook, and visible ops security. Oct 16, 2014 the phoenix project is a business book masquerading as a work of fiction. For the last decade, like clockwork, new cios would come and go every two years. Oct 15, 2014 after hearing from grant fritchey that anyone who wants to know what devops really means should read this claire brooking picked up a copy of the phoenix project. It borrows a similar format as patrick lencionis 5 dysfunctions of a team where the strategies and learnings are based in a story of a struggling technical company. The phoenix project is a business allegory about how a fictional company becomes profitable after a crisisdriven change in its information technology management style. Phoenix was launched on 4th august 2007 on a delta ii 7925 rocket, and the scheduled landing on mars on 25th may 2008 was successful. The phoenix mars lander is designed to study the surface and nearsurface environment of a landing site in the high northern area of mars. Kevin behr is chief science officer and general manager of praxis flow and founder of the information.
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