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

AUTHORS: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

PUBLISHED: 2013

Education through fiction. "Phoenix" is about an IT manager who has 90 days to rescue an over budget – and late – IT project. Canon committee member Rick Howard calls "Phoenix" a "must read" for all C-level executives, including security professionals.

in his review of the book on the Palo Alto Networks website, Howard writes: "The specific concept behind The Phoenix Project … as well as the DevOps philosophy in general, is that the development, quality assurance, deployment, maintenance and end-of-life of IT systems, to include security updates, is very similar to maintaining a production line of any other product."