A great business novel in the DevOps space. Not as good as The Goal, but a great runner-up for second place. The novel is more about operations than development, but still provide a lot of really valuable lessons for companies moving towards DevOps-oriented practices.
For a more development-oriented take on the same subject matter, see Rolling Rocks Downhill or The Unicorn Project.
Key Ideas
Optimization
- Optimizations should be made at the bottleneck
- The Four Types of Work
- Automation is one of the most effective ways to resolve bottlenecks
Experimentation
- Encourage experimentation by getting rid of blame
- The Three Ways of DevOps
- Change Advisory Boards are useless