Our guest on this episode is Gene Kim. He is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of “Tripwire” for 13 years. He's a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 6 books, including an allegorical tale: The Phoenix Project. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of the DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations. In 2007, ComputerWorld added Gene to the “40 Innovative IT People to Watch Under the Age of 40” list, and he was named a Computer Science Outstanding Alumnus by Purdue University for achievement and leadership in the profession. Gene Kim is a researcher who has been on a quest to understand what makes great technology organizations great. Author of The Wall Street Journal bestselling book: The Unicorn Project. Gene Kim