Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten

Episode 49: Brendan Hopper on Lessons Learned Shifting From Project to Product


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Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Brendan Hopper, is the CIO for technology at Commonwealth Bank Group. He is responsible for ensuring the bank has a world leading IT engineering capability and is making the right technology investments and decisions. Brendan shares what drives his passion for driving innovation and flow at organizations and why technology should become an accelerator, not a disruptor for organizations and their customers. 

In this episode, Mik and Brendan also discuss org structure and the core principle that to be evolutionary means focusing on small increments and not just major redesigns.

Key discussions include: 

  • Brendan’s professional journey in strategy and engineering
  • How velocity can drive safety
  • Building technology that real people delight in
  • Creating a transformation network that is course correcting
  • Lessons Brendan has learned in shifting from project to product 
  • The need for feedback cycles in transformation
  • Understanding data that bottlenecks at the value stream level and the organization level.
  • Restoring and repairing organizational design
  • Why org structure has to continually change
  • Moving teams between value streams when roadmapping what is next
  • What Brendan is focused on today
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    Additional Resources:

    • Connect with Brendan
  • Portfolio SAFe
  • Dean Leffingwell on the Mik + One Podcast: Part 1, Part 2
  • MarTech
  • Dave West - podcast episode
  • Scrum Studio
  • Greenfield project
  • Skunkworks
  • Bimodal IT
  • Agile Release Train
  • Mik + One Podcast Episode 20: Justin Watts
  • For more information about Brendan Hopper and to view the full list of resources mentioned in this episode, as well as download the transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/brendan-hopper/

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