George Spafford

#Gartner VP Analyst, Phoenix Project & Visible Ops co-author, #ITIL Expert, #TOCICO Jonah, #CISA, Interests: #DevOps, #SRE, leadership, organizational learning

[George Spafford @gspaff]

Daniel Betts @Gartner_inc just did a new blog post on #SRE research notes we have. https://t.co/tcbIa8i7kF

[George Spafford @gspaff]

I'm excited to be there in person this year. It's been a while :-) I'm not presenting this year but I will be available for analyst 1:1s. https://t.co/LJ6UuMYLvr

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If you are a Gartner client and struggling with adopting #agile concepts in a traditional IT infrastructure & operations (I&O) organization, check out our story at: https://t.co/9riwBEEZJg

[George Spafford @gspaff]

If you are a Gartner client and struggling with adopting agile concepts in I&O, check out our story at: https://t.co/9riwBEEZJg

[Goldratt Books @GoldrattBooks]

"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." —Albert Einstein

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10/ Widespread readership of The Phoenix Project has been growing steadily, much like the interest in DevOps itself (maybe not THAT rapidly—whoa).

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7/ Fanfiction has sprouted up, including this org chart for Parts Unlimited. cc: @MattThatITGuy https://t.co/vdd1JmBabQ

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5/ “Parts Unlimited” has become the ultimate fictitious company used across the industry. https://t.co/MLxklDGeUU

Even @Microsoft trains employees using case studies based on it: https://t.co/L37VGLuolM

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4/ The Phoenix Project has been translated into 11 other languages:

Japanese (@NikkeiBP_books)
Russian
German (@oreillyverlag)
Simplified Chinese
Complex Chinese
Portuguese
Vietnamese
Greek (@PsichogiosBooks)
Korean
Polish (@helionpl)
Turkish (@timaspublishing)

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1/ The Phoenix Project #ebook is *free* today (Dec 19) on @amazon & other bookseller sites.

If there’s someone you think should read it, now’s your chance. Retweet + tag your friends, colleagues, bosses.

Link: https://t.co/bOsooqMOw6

(A Thread) @RealGeneKim @kevinbehr @gspaff

[George Spafford @gspaff]

The Five Focusing steps from Dr. Goldratt is a fundamental thinking process to improve flow and is one of the reasons I expected more #DevOps folks at the #TOCICO event. https://t.co/9W8CnwnzSK

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If you are seeking to improve flow with #DevOps, you really need to get involved with the #TOCICO. I attended their annual event and was surprised how few DevOps folks were there. https://t.co/9W8CnwnzSK

[George Spafford @gspaff]

Always bear in mind that as arrogance increases, learning decreases.

[Joe Cooper @1joecooper]

5th anniv ed re-read of The Phoenix Project b4 I dive into Beyond TPP @RealGeneKim @kevinbehr @gspaff #tocot #devops

[Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit @ITRevSummit]

We are better at forgetting than we are at learning.- Richard Cook #DOES17

[George Spafford @gspaff]

I want to clarify something about Bimodal IT. We originally talked about fast or slow but realized it was really about degrees of certainty. Mode one is for situations where there is certainty and mode 2 has uncertainty. Both matter and need to improve #does2017

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@botchagalupe @RealGeneKim @patrickdebois @jezhumble Thank you! It was a team effort for sure.

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Congrats to @RealGeneKim @patrickdebois @jezhumble @botchagalupe The DevOps Handbook is releasing Thursday! Order:
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