For questions related to The Phoenix Project, which is a DevOps business novel.
The Phoenix Project is a DevOps business novel by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford.
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How to model Man, Machine, Measures, and Process in a DevOps world?
In The Phoenix Project when on one of the tours of the plant we're told that each workstation is a combination of Person, Machine, Measurement, and Process. This makes a lot of sense, after all we have people, servers, KPIs, and…
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How to measure human utilisation?
In The Phoenix Project the single graph in the entire book shows that as a person's workload increases into the high 90%s the wait time on them increases exponentially. In fact in the book it claims that:
Wait Time = (Percentage Busy/Percentage…
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The Phoenix Project and Military service
I have recently been reading "The Phoenix Project".
While I can relate to most aspects of the story, I am struggling to understand the frequent references to the military background of many characters (e.g. Bill himself, Stefe, Erik, ...).
Since I…
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What are the different types of work in a development team?
I'm currently on my annual re-read of The Phoenix Project and we're going through the different types of work that an Ops Team face. These are:
Project Work
Changes
Internal Projects
Unplanned Work
This time around I'm not convinced that these…
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Why is the development of a REST-API Webserver Application with less expected changes after its short term initial build a DevOps project?
I am thinking about setting up a project where a one-year development / built phase of a rest-API Server is planned. Providing an initial version in three months and deploying updates every month during the first year should be enough.
Further…
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