IT Revolution

Five years ago, Gene Kim's The Unicorn Project depicted a developer drowning in cognitive overload and context switching. It felt like fiction. Today, 72% of organizations report it takes over a month for new hires to submit their first three meaningful pull requests. Developers lose 5-15 hours weekly to unproductive work. They spend only 30% of their time actually coding. Now available in paperback for the first time, The Unicorn Project is more relevant than ever. Read more at the link in comments 🔽

"Make the ball green and 3x larger. Add another ball. Can we turn it into a game?" Progressive refinement through conversation is how vibe coding works—iterative, dynamic, and surprisingly intuitive. Gene Kim and Steve Yegge demonstrate that effective AI collaboration requires no coding knowledge, just the ability to have a conversation. Your AI assistant clarifies concepts and handles implementation while you focus on creative direction. This conversational approach to programming is fundamentally changing how we solve problems. https://itrev.io/3Vrv4uS

The 2025 DORA report just dropped a reality bomb on tech leaders: AI doesn't create organizational excellence—it amplifies what already exists. With 90% of organizations now using AI in software development, the results are fascinating and sobering. High-performing organizations with solid foundations see AI as a powerful accelerator. Those with dysfunctional systems? AI magnifies their chaos. This isn't just about tools anymore. It's about the organizational wiring that Gene Kim and Steve Spear explored in Wiring the Winning Organization. Read more at the link in comments 🔽

Midway through a grueling readiness inspection aboard a nuclear submarine, things went wrong. A weapons system failed. Equipment damage compounded the setback. The inspection team—veterans of dozens of these evaluations—had every reason to call it. The crew of the USS Honolulu could have been forgiven for thinking the exam was already over. Instead, they rallied. They worked through the damage, one problem at a time. They demonstrated capabilities the inspectors had already written off. When it was over, the lead evaluator delivered a verdict that surprised everyone in the room: in all his years of conducting these inspections, he had never seen a crew perform better. What happened on the Honolulu that day wasn’t a lucky break. It wasn’t a heroic last-minute effort by exceptional individuals. It was the result of two years of deliberate, systematic work by commanders John Richardson and Bill Cramer to build something in that crew that most leaders never think to measure—and that Andre Martin, in his new book Collective Confidence, identifies as the first and most foundational principle of team performance: individual belief, scaled into something larger. Read more in this article!

Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi celebrated the launch of their book Signals & Levers with the one and only Gene Kim! Check out this fascinating discussion about systems thinking, the world of The Phoenix Project, and more! https://itrev.io/4z0gRad #SystemsThinking #ITLeadership

It really helps books, especially from small publishers like ours, when you rate and review them on Amazon and other booksellers! This is how many people first hear about a book, or how they can tell if it will actually help them with their pain points. Take a couple of minutes to review your recent reads today! Our most recent releases can be reviewed on Amazon here: Hyperadaptive: https://itrev.io/47IPvZK Output to Outcome: https://itrev.io/4oQ0eZf Practice Makes Culture: https://itrev.io/4hjACUr Collective Confidence: https://itrev.io/4xBOM89 Signals & Levers: https://itrev.io/45Ggo05 The IT/OT Handbook: https://itrev.io/4xB1R1A