DevOps Researcher, Author
Gene Kim is an American author, researcher, and founder and former CTO of Tripwire who has studied high-performing technology organisations since 1999. He co-authored the seminal DevOps novel 'The Phoenix Project,' its sequel 'The Unicorn Project,' 'The DevOps Handbook,' and 'Accelerate.'
by Gene Kim
Kim uses a novel format to show how DevOps principles, flow, feedback, and continual learning, can rescue a failing IT organisation. A parable about breaking down silos.
by Gene Kim
Kim follows a developer rescuing a system trapped in technical debt and dysfunction. The novel dramatizes five DevOps ideals: locality, focus, flow, joy, and psychological safety.
by Gene Kim
Kim lays out the Three Ways, flow, feedback, and continuous learning, as the blueprint for integrating dev and ops. The goal is making deployments routine, not risky.
The books Gene Kim references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.
by Jez Humble
Humble and Farley argue that software should always be in a deployable state. Automating the build, test, and release pipeline eliminates risk and makes frequent, reliable releases routine.
Who Gene draws from, and who draws from Gene — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.