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The Phoenix Project

By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

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“the Phoenix project by Kimber spafford um which is kind of a modern rewrite of the goal”

Speaker: Will Larson▶ Watch at ~26:00approx.

Write only what energises you, only what overlaps your job, and publish nearly all of it.

Report an imperfect engineering metric on purpose, then use every question about it to educate upward.

Model any org process as stocks and flows, then find where reality disagrees with the model.

Write the strategy down, get the diagnosis honest, then constrain options so energy goes to what matters.

Three tests that separate values which drive decisions from values that just describe your self-image.

Give the eng manager and PM the same performance rating, and make them understand before they argue.

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