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A review by rossbm
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
3.0
I read the Pheonix project a few years ago and enjoyed it. Thought I would listen to The Unicorn Project on Audible. It’s not bad, but far from a “page turner”.
Like The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project is a clunky novel that is written in order to pread the gospel of devops and similar practices. Compared to the Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project focuses more on data and smaller teams. It is told from the point of view of a senior engineer, Maxine, who is “exiled” to The Phoenix Project. After valiantly trying build a development version of the Phoenix Project, she joins “The Resistance” and is off to the races, initiating a radical reimagining of how IT operates in “Parts Unlimited”, the fictional company where Maxine works.
It’s a nice fairy tale, but it’s definitely a fairy tale. Radical transformations happen overnight, with very little explanations of how things are actually accomplished. Still, it’s a decent book.
Like The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project is a clunky novel that is written in order to pread the gospel of devops and similar practices. Compared to the Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project focuses more on data and smaller teams. It is told from the point of view of a senior engineer, Maxine, who is “exiled” to The Phoenix Project. After valiantly trying build a development version of the Phoenix Project, she joins “The Resistance” and is off to the races, initiating a radical reimagining of how IT operates in “Parts Unlimited”, the fictional company where Maxine works.
It’s a nice fairy tale, but it’s definitely a fairy tale. Radical transformations happen overnight, with very little explanations of how things are actually accomplished. Still, it’s a decent book.