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

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

By Dr. Mik Kersten: Author of Project to Product and Founder and CEO of TasktopBusinessManagement
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Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten episodes

  • Episode 33: Scott Prugh on Product Value Streams and Service Ownership

    Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Scott Prugh, Chief Technology Officer at CSG.

    In this episode, Mik and Scott talk about Scott’s experience and learnings from within the DevOps community, as well as many other key topics including:

    • The three domains in DevOps portfolio management and how to think about them independently, as well as how they reinforce each other
  • Flow Load and Work in Progress (WIP) and how organizations end up with a mismatch between capacity and the work that’s booked and committed
  • Combining service ownership with produce value streams
  • How to play the longer game by changing team structures and looking at managing services
  • The concept of an impact minute and how to calculate it
  • Successfully communicating technical language and processes to the wider team of stakeholders

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    www.tasktop.com

    For more information about Scott Prugh, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/scott-prugh/

    49 min
  • Episode 32: Carmen DeArdo on Not Letting Your Work Manage You

    Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Carmen DeArdo, Principal Flow Advisor and VSM Practice Lead at Tasktop, and co-author of the award-winning book, Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation.

    This episode covers:

    • Insight into Carmen’s early experience at Nationwide and Bell Labs, and how he has applied his experience and learnings to help other organizations today
  • Carmen’s expertise with local optimization of the value stream and how he works with organizations to take those first steps in making the switch from vertical thinking to horizontal thinking
  • The origins of The Flow Framework and how it has helped shift the way that organizations look at the entire value stream
  • The key lessons Carmen has learned from helping larger organizations fulfill large deployments of The Flow Framework and some of the biggest surprises and learnings from the past couple of years

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    For more information about Carmen DeArdo, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/carmen-deardo/

    48 min
  • Episode 31: Gene Kim on Psychological Safety and Communications Paths

    In this episode of Mik + One, Mik sits down with Gene Kim, best-selling author of The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, as well as co-author of The DevOps Handbook.

    In this episode, Gene chats to Mik about the next book that he’s working on, and provides many insights into:

    • The journey of the Unicorn Project, the effect it had on technology leaders and how it changed their perspectives
  • A deeper look into the importance of Psychological Safety and how this links to an organization’s structure and dynamics
  • Successful communication paths within an organization in order to improve culture, maximize flow and see successful results, faster
  • The properties and prerequisites of high performing, dynamic learning organizations and advice to help teams become one
  • The effective patterns that leadership can adopt to enable an effective communication architecture and organizational structure in order to maximize flow faster and more efficiently

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    For more information about Gene Kim, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/gene-kim-ep-31/

    56 min
  • Episode 30: Brian Solis on the Digital Change Agents in the Novel Economy

    It’s episode 30 and what a guest we’ve got! Mik welcomes Brian Solis, Global Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce and world-renowned keynote speaker and an award-winning author of eight bestselling books.

    In this episode, Mik and Brian cover a lot of ground and discuss many key topics including:

    • How people should think about their digital transformations in order to change their thinking in 2021 and adapt to the novel economy
  • Avoiding the pitfalls and traps of digital transformations and guidance on how organizations can successfully adapt
  • The importance of defining a product value stream and measuring transformations to increase customer value, faster
  • Driving innovative digital experiences in order to gain customer attention and loyalty
  • Advice to the Digital Change Agents in order to get leadership buy-in and drive change middle-up instead of top-down

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    www.tasktop.com

    For more information about Brian Solis, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/brian-solis/

    35 min
  • Episode 29: Maya Leibman and Ross Clanton on American Airlines Going Contactless

    In this episode, Mik is joined by two IT leaders from American Airlines: Maya Leibman, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and Ross Clanton, Managing Director of Technology Transformation.

    Mik, Maya and Ross delve into American Airlines shift to digital innovation, including insights into:

    • Changing and influencing leaderships approach to IT, innovation and software
  • Working with finance to enable them to better understand software products and IT value streams
  • How American Airlines delivered touchless kiosk in six weeks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Some of the missteps and failures where things didn't go as planned
  • Ensuring IT delivery is connected to business outcomes to create a rapid feedback loop
  • Celebrating success, having fun and increasing the happiness and engagement of employees

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    For more information about Maya Leibman and Ross Clanton, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/american-airlines/

    45 min
  • Episode 28: Pieter Jordaan on TUI’s Incredible 6-Month Cloud Journey

    Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Pieter Jordaan, Group CTO at TUI, the world’s leading integrated tourism group operating in more than a hundred destinations worldwide.

    In this episode, Mik and Pieter discuss Pieter’s contribution to TUI’s successful transformation to cloud and product value streams, as well as other key discussion points including:

    • Pieter’s background and how he came to work for TUI, where the company was when he met Mik and the kind of business they were doing at that time
  • How Pieter approached the transformation to consolidate the company’s different organization structures, operating models and IT systems
  • The importance of visibility and choosing the right technology platform to provide a modern operating model for the entire business
  • How the pandemic changed travel and made TUI look at massive cost savings and readopt a startup day mentality to continue their digital transformation journey
  • Convincing leadership to buy into this transformation and everyone at the company to shift
  • The critical process of allowing people to make mistakes and why managing risks shouldn’t be the first starting position

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    For more information about Pieter Jordaan, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/pieter-jordaan

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 27: Robin Yeman on A Common Language Across Silos

    Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Robin Yeman, Senior Fellow and Agile DevSecOps Enterprise coach at Lockheed Martin.

    In this episode, Mik and Robin discuss how Robin approaches leadership with complex systems of systems and other key discussion points including:

    • Insight into Robin’s journey and PhD thesis, examining how to deploy complex system of systems using Agile and DevSecOps
  • The need to develop a common language by connecting the different systems, vocabularies, the ways people work and collaborate, prototype and build systems
  • How Robin helps organizations develop this common language through a common understanding of the vision
  • The need to deliver value at the speed of relevance
  • Successful examples of how Robin gets people to change their thinking

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    For more information about Robin Yeman, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/robin-yeman/

    51 min
  • Episode 26: Eric Willeke on the Metrics Killing Your Transformation

    In this episode of Mik + One, Mik is joined by Eric Willeke, Co-Founder and Principal of Elevate.to.

    In this episode, Mik and Eric touch on many key points around simplicity and flow to drive successful digital transformations, including:

    • Lean-agile techniques and helping organizations to understand agility, progress and reorganize around it
  • How inherent simplicity relates to flow and how to reverse Work in Progress (WIP) issues and bottlenecks
  • Agile sponsorships and the importance of tying agility to the company’s purpose and market outcomes in a clear and obvious way
  • The risks of mechanical adoption and why it’s a common pitfall
  • The danger of proxy metrics and advice to organizations to drive successful digital transformations and organizational processes in 2021

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    For more information about Eric Willeke, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/eric-willeke/

    55 min
  • Episode 25: Rene Te-Strote on The Future of Transport: Virtual Simulation

    In this episode of Mik + One,  Mik is joined by Rene Te-Strote, Senior IT Project Lead for the BMW Group.

    In this episode, Mik and Rene discuss Rene’s contributions to innovate the BMW Group by mixing hardware and software development and other key discussion points including:

    • How Rene started his career in BMW, first working in a production plant and then moving to the IT department
  • Some of the foundational principles Rene applied to innovate and point the organization in the right direction, such as thinking of the entire manufacturing process as a product
  • How Rene accelerated the speed of innovation in an industrial context, and how simulation has become a key part of car manufacturing at BMW Group
  • Where Rene’s high-performance computing clusters are at now
  • Rene’s insights into the next 10 years within the automotive industry

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    For more information about Rene Te-Strote, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/rene-te-strote/

    42 min
  • Episode 24: Adrian Cockcroft on Serviceless Servers and Chaos Engineering

    Kicking off the first episode of 2021, Mik is joined by Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services.

    In this episode, Mik and Adrian discuss Adrian’s predictions for application architecture in 2021, what’s happening with microservices architecture and other key discussion points including:

    • Serverless services and why the time is now to use the fastest way to deliver these applications
  • Adrian’s guidance for using AWS’ new greenfield applications that can help quickly bring a product to market
  • How organizations can use Wardley maps as a powerful tool to map out their efforts and navigate rapidly changing technology landscapes
  • How Adrian approaches chaos engineering
  • Big data, its uses and what problems you can solve with it
  • Amazon’s efforts with sustainability and renewable energy, and how moving a workload to the cloud could dramatically reduce a client’s carbon footprint

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    For more information about Adrian Cockcroft, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:

    https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/adrian-cockcroft-ep-24/

    1 hr 20 min

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

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Since publishing best-selling book, Project to Product, technology business leader, Dr. Mik Kersten, has introduced transformative frameworks and ideas for delivering software at scale. He has given numerous standing room only keynotes and presentations worldwide and is an internationally recognized thought-leader.