This highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix Project takes another look at Parts Unlimited, this time from the perspective of software development. In The Phoenix Project, Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, is tasked with a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced. 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. One day, she is approached by a ragtag bunch of misfits who say they want to overthrow the existing order, to liberate developers, to bring joy back to technology work, and to enable the business to win in a time of digital disruption. To her surprise, she finds herself drawn ever further into this movement, eventually becoming one of the leaders of the Rebellion, which puts her in the crosshairs of some familiar and very dangerous enemies. The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms--this is a story about "red shirt" developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.

这部备受期待的畅销书《凤凰计划》的后续之作，从软件开发的角度，再次审视了《零件无限公司》。在《凤凰计划》中，Parts Unlimited公司的IT经理比尔负责一个对企业未来至关重要的项目，代号为凤凰计划。但该项目大大超出了预算，而且落后于计划。首席执行官要求比尔在九十天内解决这个烂摊子，否则比尔的整个部门将被外包。在《独角兽计划》中，我们跟随高级首席开发人员和建筑师玛克辛，她被流放到凤凰城项目，她的朋友和同事都很惊恐，这是对她造成工资中断的惩罚。她试图在一个无情无义的官僚机构中生存，并在一个没有无休止的委员会、文书工作和审批的系统中工作，没有人能够完成任何事情。有一天，一群不合群的人找到她，说他们要推翻现有的秩序，解放开发者，让技术工作重新获得乐趣，并让企业在数字颠覆的时代获胜。令她惊讶的是，她发现自己被越来越多地卷入这场运动，最终成为叛乱的领导人之一，这使她陷入了一些熟悉的、非常危险的敌人的包围圈。软件时代已经到来，另一个大规模灭绝事件迫在眉睫--这是一个关于 "红衫军 "开发人员和商业领袖一起工作的故事，他们与时间赛跑，在一个前所未有的不确定性......和机会的时代中创新、生存和繁荣。

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