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The Unicorn Project : A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim, Gene Kim is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Phoenix Project, Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, is tasked with 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 fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. 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 in

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Author

Gene Kim, Gene Kim

Publisher

It Revolution Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781942788775

Category

business

Subjects

Fiction, Business, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (4,225 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14