The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Kim, Gene

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The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling The Unicorn Project!

The Unicorn Project is amazing, and I loved it 100 times more than The Phoenix Project…”—FERNANDO CORNAGO, Senior Director Platform Engineering, Adidas

“Gene Kim does a masterful job of showing how … the efforts of many create lasting business advantages for all.”—DR. STEVEN SPEAR, author of The High-Velocity Edge, Sr. Lecturer at MIT, and principal of HVE LLC.

The Unicorn Project is so clever, so good, so crazy enlightening!”––CORNELIA DAVIS, Vice President Of Technology at Pivotal Software, Inc., Author of Cloud Native Patterns

This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development.

In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals.

One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies.

The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

The Unicorn Project provides insanely useful insights on how to improve your technology business.”—DOMINICA DEGRANDIS, author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop

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“My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together.”—Gene Kim, November 2019

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《鳳凰計劃》讓超過五十萬讀者驚艷不已。現在,《獨角獸計劃》登上《華爾街日報》暢銷書榜!

「《獨角獸計劃》太棒了,我比《鳳凰計劃》更愛它一百倍……」——阿迪達斯平台工程高級總監費爾南多·科納戈

「吉恩·金做了一個出色的工作,展示了許多人的努力如何為所有人創造持久的商業優勢。」——史蒂芬·斯皮爾博士,《高速邊緣》作者,麻省理工學院高級講師,HVE LLC負責人

「《獨角獸計劃》如此聰明、如此出色、如此令人驚艷!」——Pivotal Software副總裁兼技術主管康妮莉亞·戴維斯,《雲原生模式》作者

這本廣受期待的續集以著名作品《鳳凰計劃》為基礎,從軟體開發的角度再次探索了無限部件公司。

在《獨角獸計劃》中,我們跟隨資深首席開發人員和架構師瑪克辛,她被流放到鳳凰計劃,這讓她的朋友和同事感到震驚,因為這是對她參與薪資故障的懲罰。她試圖在這個冷酷無情的官僚體制中生存下來,並在一個沒有無休止的委員會、文書工作和批准就無法完成任何事情的系統中工作。

有一天,她被一群不拘一格的怪人接近,他們表示他們想要推翻現有秩序,解放開發人員,讓科技工作重新充滿喜悅,並在數字化破壞時代中使企業取得勝利。令她驚訝的是,她發現自己越來越深入地參與這場運動,最終成為起義的領導者之一,這使她成為一些熟悉而非常危險的敵人的目標。

軟體時代已經來臨,另一場大規模滅絕事件即將發生——這是一個關於叛逆開發人員和商業領袖共同努力,在時間壓力下創新、生存和繁榮的故事,這是一個前所未有的不確定性和機遇時代。

「《獨角獸計劃》提供了極其有用的見解,可以改善您的科技業務。」——Dominica DeGrandis,《讓工作可見》作者,Tasktop數位轉型總監

「我寫《獨角獸計劃》的目標是探索並揭示使開發人員(以及所有工程師)提高生產力所需的必要但看不見的結構,並揭示技術債和複雜性的毀滅性影響。我希望這本書能為科技和商業領袖創造共同基礎,讓過去成為過去,共同創造更美好的未來。」——吉恩·金,2019年11月

作者簡介

Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the "40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40" list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession. He lives in Portland, OR, with his wife and family.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Gene Kim是一位多次獲獎的CTO、研究員和作家,自1999年以來一直研究高效能的科技組織。他曾是Tripwire的創始人和CTO長達13年。他已經出版了六本書,包括《獨角獸專案》(2019年)、《鳳凰專案》(2013年)、《DevOps手冊》(2016年)、獲得Shingo出版獎的《加速》(2018年)以及《可見運營手冊》(2004-2006年)系列。自2014年以來,他一直是DevOps企業峰會的創始人和組織者,研究大型複雜組織的技術轉型。2007年,ComputerWorld將Gene列為“40位40歲以下值得關注的創新IT人物”之一,並且他還因在專業領域的成就和領導能力而被普渡大學計算機科學系評為傑出校友。他與妻子和家人居住在俄勒岡州的波特蘭市。