The Unicorn Project and The Five Ideals – Gene Kim – PSW #635
In this week's episode of Paul's Security Weekly, Paul and the guys welcome back Gene Kim to interview him about his newest book "The Unicorn Project". Gene shares with us his goals and aspirations for The Unicorn Project, describes in detail the Five Ideals, along with his favorite case studies of both ideal and non-ideal, and why he believes more than ever that DevOps will be one of the most potent economic forces for decades to come.
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Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.