Want to read a great book on how I.T. can help your business?

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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 90 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 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.

The above is courtesy of Amazon.com listing for the book.

I read this book several years ago and had memories of the many businesses I have been engaged with over the past 35 plus years in helping them with technology solutions.

Every business executive should included this as a "have read" book in their library.