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The Phoenix Project Summary & Review: Stop the Firefighting
The Phoenix Project shows how unplanned work and a hidden constraint stall every project — plus the Three Ways and a 7-day…
Read Summary →George Spafford
"IT governance analyst and co-author of The Phoenix Project."
George Spafford is an IT governance and operations analyst who, with Gene Kim and Kevin Behr, translated factory physics into the ticket-queue world of The Phoenix Project — four types of work, a protected constraint, and a plant that can improve itself.
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Four types of work share one plant
Business projects, internal projects, changes, and unplanned work compete. Naming the types is how you stop pretending only the roadmap exists.
Book Author George Spafford
The Phoenix Project Summary & Review: Stop the Firefighting
The Phoenix Project shows how unplanned work and a hidden constraint stall every project — plus the Three Ways and a 7-day plan to make work flow again.