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Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his work on IT operations, DevOps, and organizational performance. He co-authored The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, and founded IT Revolution to advance the study and practice of high-performing technology organizations.
Known for: Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, The Devops Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data, Wiring the Winning Organization: 20 Timeless Principles of Organizational Effectiveness
Books by Gene Kim
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Accelerate presents research-backed insights into how technology-driven organizations can achieve high performance through DevOps and Lean principles. Drawing on years of data from the State of DevOps...
The Devops Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The DevOps Handbook explores how organizations can achieve high performance by integrating development and operations teams. It provides practical guidance on continuous delivery, automation, and cult...
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Phoenix Project is a business novel that follows Bill Palmer, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, who is suddenly promoted to VP of IT Operations. Faced with a failing project called 'The Phoenix Pr...
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
The Unicorn Project is a novel that explores the world of software development and digital transformation through the lens of a fictional company struggling to modernize its technology and culture. It...
Wiring the Winning Organization: 20 Timeless Principles of Organizational Effectiveness
Wiring the Winning Organization presents a framework for building organizations that can continuously learn, adapt, and excel. Drawing on decades of research and practical experience, Gene Kim and Ste...
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Defining Software Delivery Performance
Before we can talk about improvement, we need to understand what performance actually means. Through our research, we identified four key metrics that reliably predict an organization’s ability to deliver software effectively: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore service...
From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Linking IT Performance to Organizational Outcomes
One of our most surprising discoveries was just how closely software delivery performance predicts organizational success. Companies that excel technically grow faster, are more profitable, and enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction. The implication is profound: IT is no longer a support funct...
From Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
The First Way: Flow — From Development to Operations
When we talk about the First Way — Flow — we describe the lifeblood of DevOps: the smooth, uninterrupted movement of work from concept to customer. The First Way is about optimizing the entire system of work, not the individual silos. In traditional organizations, development pushes code down a one-...
From The Devops Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The Second Way: Feedback — Building Quality and Reliability
If the First Way accelerates delivery, the Second Way ensures we stay on course. Feedback is the compass that guides continuous improvement, allowing teams to detect issues early and adjust before small problems become catastrophic ones. In traditional environments, feedback is painfully slow — user...
From The Devops Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The Chaos Before Understanding: Bill’s Early Struggles
Bill’s first days as the newly promoted VP of IT Operations are a nightmare. The Phoenix Project is collapsing under its own complexity. Deployments fail, production systems crumble, and the executive team places the blame squarely on IT. As Bill steps into the fire, he realizes the organization isn...
From The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The First Way: Systems Thinking and Flow
Erik’s mentorship leads Bill to the First Way — the practice of systems thinking. To save Phoenix, Bill must learn to visualize the entire value stream, from code creation to production release and beyond. He starts uncovering what’s really happening: too many simultaneous projects, constant interru...
From The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
About Gene Kim
Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his work on IT operations, DevOps, and organizational performance. He co-authored The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, and founded IT Revolution to advance the study and practice of high-performing technology organization...
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Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his work on IT operations, DevOps, and organizational performance. He co-authored The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, and founded IT Revolution to advance the study and practice of high-performing technology organization...
Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his work on IT operations, DevOps, and organizational performance. He co-authored The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, and founded IT Revolution to advance the study and practice of high-performing technology organizations.
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Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his work on IT operations, DevOps, and organizational performance. He co-authored The Phoenix Project and The DevOps Handbook, and founded IT Revolution to advance the study and practice of high-performing technology organizations.
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