The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

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.

Author: Gene Kim
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: It Revolution
Published: 10/07/2025
Series: Phoenix Project
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781942788997