{"id":3005,"date":"2016-09-02T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:27:56","slug":"five-devops-must-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/five-devops-must-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Five DevOps Must-Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

DevOps promotes the collaboration between developers and other IT stakeholders to optimize software delivery.\u00a0 For many organizations, it\u2019s a challenge for teams to come together with the right mix of priorities and expectations.\u00a0 Application Development Manager, <\/em>Dave Harrison<\/a><\/em>, shares five of his favorite DevOps books.<\/p>\n

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DevOps as a movement is gaining traction, but you could argue \u2013 very successfully \u2013 that we\u2019re still missing a few key pieces. For example, we lack a clear manifesto as we have with Agile<\/a>. As a development lead, I would have those words of the Agile Manifesto up on my wall \u2013 and always, when I faced a difficult decision, I would find it helped me cut out the nonessentials and focus on improving the way I did my work. For DevOps, being younger and in some ways being much more difficult than Agile in making that awkward straddle between Ops and Development, there isn\u2019t yet that clear guiding set of principles that can help us chart our way.<\/p>\n

There are however some key texts that should be in your bookshelf. The interesting thing about each of these are that they approach the problem from very different angles. If you\u2019re thinking of leaving a book on someone\u2019s desk, you\u2019ll want to choose carefully.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take each of these five books and split them up by target audience \u2013 first, business-driven organizations; second, developers and dev-lead orgs, and lastly IT and Operations teams.<\/p>\n

Category 1 – Business and Executive Audiences<\/h3>\n

\"PhoenixProject\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Classic #1 \u2013 The Phoenix Project<\/h4>\n

Here two books stand out \u2013 first, the modern classic \u201cThe Phoenix Project<\/a>\u201d by Gene Kim, Behr and Spafford. The authors here spin a very engaging story about a company in deep trouble, and how a heroic IT lead transforms their organization with some timely advice from a mentor with a manufacturing background. I can\u2019t think of another book that\u2019s made more impact in DevOps. It\u2019s well written, compelling, and reaches executives \u2013 who want to lead change and identify with the central character \u2013 very effectively. The book really picks up speed in the Appendix where it gets more specific \u2013 I\u2019ve reviewed it here in my blog<\/a>. But, definitely, read this book!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the main aspects of this book:<\/p>\n