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1	The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim 4.25 avg rating — 51,544 ratings score: 1,498, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim 4.29 avg rating — 6,009 ratings score: 987, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 8,350 ratings score: 964, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim 4.06 avg rating — 10,467 ratings score: 592, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Continuous delivery by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,324 ratings score: 584, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard 4.25 avg rating — 3,288 ratings score: 482, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.69 avg rating — 11,412 ratings score: 399, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 2,974 ratings score: 389, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.07 avg rating — 86,965 ratings score: 381, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery: A Hands-On Guide to Deploying and Managing Software in Production by Yevgeniy Brikman (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution Of DevOps (Official Transcript of The Audio Series) by Gene Kim 4.07 avg rating — 435 ratings score: 288, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother 4.19 avg rating — 1,946 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 60,251 ratings score: 273, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Fuckup Almanac. Volume 1: Foundations of the Digital World by Adam Korga (Goodreads Author) 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Len Bass 3.61 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 566 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 1,562 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow by Dominica Degrandis 4.09 avg rating — 2,072 ratings score: 169, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Effective Devops: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 295 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise by Sanjeev Sharma 3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale by Gary Gruver 3.79 avg rating — 419 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices by Viktor Farcic 4.16 avg rating — 133 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using Devops to Drive Process Improvement by Bob Aiello 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson 3.99 avg rating — 3,393 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns 3.95 avg rating — 455 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Drift into Failure by Sidney Dekker 4.03 avg rating — 353 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time by John Allspaw 4.09 avg rating — 337 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Paul Duvall 3.81 avg rating — 456 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Start and Scaling Devops in the Enterprise by Gary Gruver 3.73 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility by Mark Schwartz (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 792 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	DevOps for the Modern Enterprise: Winning Practices to Transform Legacy IT Organizations by Mirco Hering (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 204 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	It's Not Luck by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.18 avg rating — 3,231 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving by H. William Dettmer 4.38 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Thinking for a Change (The CRC Press Series on Constraints Management) by Lisa J. Scheinkopf 3.96 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.08 avg rating — 652 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Necessary But Not Sufficient by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 4.10 avg rating — 728 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud by Julien Vehent 4.37 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (SEI Series in Software Engineering) by Len Bass 3.61 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel by Dee Jacob 3.84 avg rating — 614 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars