A nine-part audio series (total runtime 7 hours 33 minutes), published as both audio and accompanying text by it-revolution. gene-kim and john-willis conduct an extended conversation tracing the intellectual roots of the DevOps movement.
What This Work Does
Where the-phoenix-project dramatized DevOps principles and the-devops-handbook provided implementation guidance, Beyond the Phoenix Project makes the intellectual genealogy explicit. It is the most thorough statement of where DevOps ideas came from.
The conversation traces:
Significance
This is the primary source for understanding how Kim and Willis understood DevOps as a synthesis rather than a novel invention. The explicit citation of Dekker on safety culture, Deming on quality, and Goldratt on constraints gives the movement's intellectual debts in the participants' own words.
Willis's subsequent book demings-journey-to-profound-knowledge (2023) extends the Deming thread developed here into a full-length treatment.
Format Note
The "book" designation is approximate — the work is primarily an audio series with printed transcripts. The date (2018-02-25) is the publication date; the conversations were recorded over multiple sessions (approximate).