DevOps Is Not Going to Work: The Phoenix Project Simulation
summary
Argues DevOps fails unless organizational culture, behavior and change management are tackled, and demonstrates a business simulation built from The Phoenix Project that teams play to practice real work flows. The game runs in over 500 workshops with 300 partners, uses Post‑its, dashboards and later Trello (Auto Trader now has ~400 Trello boards), surfaces concrete fixes (teams drop incident WIP from 40% to 20% across rounds), and shows measurable improvement by round three as teams adopt continuous learning cycles.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 6:50Lack of management buyin
- 13:10Business awareness
- 14:17IT management experience
- 15:09Work with people
- 17:44How do we work
- 18:17Foster learning cycles
- 21:45The Serious Game
- 22:32Interactive Workshops
- 24:09Demo
- 25:38Background
- 27:28Why is it the most important
- 28:40The knowledge behind this
- 30:41Why simulations are so powerful
- 39:07Who should lead a Kanban session
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