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The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Unicorn Project

by Gene Kim

The developer-side companion to The Phoenix Project: a novel about a demoted engineer rebuilding a doomed project around five ideals, including locality, flow and psychological safety. For technology leaders.

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  1. Locality and simplicity.
  2. Focus, flow and joy.
  3. Psychological safety is a performance factor.

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The developer's Phoenix Project.

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