About The Book

The Wall Street Journal bestselling book is now available in paperback for the first time.

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work within a system where no one can get anything done without endless committees, paperwork, and approvals.

The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms—this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty…and opportunity.

About The Author

Gene Kim has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was the founder and CTO of Tripwire, Inc., an enterprise security software company, where he served for 13 years. He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose books have sold over 1 million copies. His works include Wiring the Winning Organization, The Unicorn Project, The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate, among others. Since 2014, he has been the organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit (now the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit), studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

Product Details

  • Publisher: IT Revolution (October 7, 2025)
  • Length: 352 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781942788997

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