“Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it.” ~ Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win1 The book makes the case for proper planning, rigor, and discipline as an antidote to getting out of the impossible quagmire of technical debt, tightly coupled systems and unachievable product deadlines.

“Teams that are best at DevOps and continuous delivery can release software thousands of times more quickly and with a small fraction of the defects.” The above quote is from Dave Farley’s review1 of “The State of DevOps” report2. It rang so true that I tweeted it. Martin Fowler responded to the original Tweet from Dave asking if there was a transcript available.