August Book Club Event (VIRTUAL) - The Phoenix Project
Book Club Meeting – August, 25 2021
Topic: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win
Description
For our next book club event, we will be discussing The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (3rd edition) by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. Earn PDUs and get to know other members (and guests) of the Chapter.
Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.
With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.
In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.
If you are interested in participating, please register for the event below and grab the book from your local library, bookstore, or online retailer.
Meeting Agenda:
Introduction: 6:00pm – 6:15pm
Book discussion: 6:15pm – 7:15pm
Closing: 7:15pm – 7:30pm
Price: Free
PDUs: 1 Technical PDU for participating in the discussion. You may also claim 1 Technical PDU for each hour spent reading the book. The approximate time to read this book is 8 hours.
Note: PDUs for this event will not be submitted by the Chapter. PDUs must be submitted directly to www.PMI.org.
Location: This is a virtual event hosted by Zoom. Zoom dial-in information will be emailed to you 1 week before the event and the day of the event. The email will come from web@kipmi.org. If you do not receive Zoom dial-in information, please check your junk/spam folders.
If you have any questions regarding this event, want to suggest a question or two for the discussion, or if you have book suggestions to be considered for future book club events, please send an email to education@kipmi.org.
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