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. In this podcast, Mik + One, nothing is off the record as Mik sits down with industry leading guests and delves into how they deliver value and drive digital transformations in their organizations. Tune in for a new episode every two weeks! Subscribe to the Mik + One podcast today so you never miss an episode. Follow Mik on X: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne www.projecttoproduct.org
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Joining Mik on this episode of Mik + One is David Anderson, Director of Technology, Liberty IT.
In this episode, Mik and David discuss:
- Liberty IT’s journey into a serverless-first world
- A customer over cost-centric approach to cloud
- Removing “undifferentiated heavy lifting” from the work environment
- Creating “two-way door” architecture for flexibility and flow
- Using “lego blocks” to help engineers build innovative solutions on the cloud
- Shift away from traditional IT to partner-enabling technology
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For more information about David Anderson, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/david-anderson/
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Joining Mik on this episode of Mik + One is Justin Watts, Director of Agile Change at Lloyd Banking Group one of the UK’s Big Four banks.
In this episode, Mik and Justin discuss:
- Redesigning software systems around flow to the customer instead of process
- Respecting the laws of physics when accelerating flow across value streams
- Importance of doing the right things wrong, rather than wrong things right
- Identifying leading indicators to track and improve lagging measures
- How the economies of flows outweigh the economies of scale
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For more information about Justin Watts, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/justin-watts
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Joining Mik on this episode of Mik + One is Peter D. Moore, a business and digital technology strategy advisor specializing in helping companies manage exponential revenue, margin and net income growth.
In this episode, Mik and Peter discuss:
- In the influence of the Zone Management Model on Project to Product
- The role of different cultures and leadership in specific zones
- The need for specific metrics and targets for each zone
- The big evolution in IT skill sets to fill the talent gap
- How the Flow Framework® can be applied to all zones to balance innovation with performance
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For more information about Peter D. Moore, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/peter-moore/
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
On this episode of Mik + One, Mik is joined by Bryon Kroger, Founder and CEO of Rise8, and former co-founder and COO of the USAF's Kessel Run.
In this episode, Mik and Bryon’s conversation includes discussions around:
- The remarkable story of Project Kessel Run at the U.S. Airforce
- Driving change at large bureaucracies
- Adopting a “think big, start small” strategy to software transformation
- Paying attention to total cost of ownership of a value stream
- Avoiding the Lean trap and alignment trap
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For more information about Bryon Kroger, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/bryon-kroger/
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Joining Mik on this episode of Mik + One is John Willis, Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office at Red Hat.
In this episode, Mik and John discuss:
- Embracing failure for continual learning
- Flow Metrics as the next evolution of software delivery measurement
- Where most waste and wait times are found
- How team happiness is a leading indicator of value stream health
- The right structure and measures for adaptive, complex systems
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For more information about John Willis, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/john-willis/
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
In this episode, Mik is joined by two guests: Dr. Nicole Forsgren, VP of Research & Strategy at GitHub, and Dr. Denae Ford Robinson, Senior Researcher in the SAINTes group at Microsoft Research.
Mik, Nicole and Denae had an energetic and insightful conversation about many topics, including:
- Measuring productivity, and how leaders can utilize these insights to build diverse systems and measures to strengthen inclusion and diversity at scale
- The importance of making the workflow, conversations and collaborations visible
- Creating a company culture that embraces diversity and inclusion, and encourages employees to bring their authentic selves and ideas to the workplace
- Breaking the stereotypes of developer personas and creating a safe working environment that encourages the intersection of personal and professional identities
- The social fabric of an organization and how evolving technological architecture can increase flow and visibility, and create better outcomes
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For more information about Dr. Nicole Forsgren & Dr. Denae Ford Robinson, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/dr-nicole-forsgren-dr-denae-ford-robinson/
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services.
In this episode, Mik and Adrian provide concrete advice on moving ahead in the digital world and cover many key discussion points including:
- Insight into Adrian’s experiences establishing technical practices in organizations like eBay, Netflix and AWS
- The importance of product-centred innovation in order to pave the path for faster success
- Business agility, and why all organizations must have this in order to innovate and stay ahead of the competition
- The importance of feedback loops when delivering software, with a key focus on the four stages of the OODA loop
- The notion of ‘Flow Time’ or ‘Time to Value’ and why it is a crucial and powerful metric that all CEOs must prioritize
- The use of VSM in order to achieve better decision making and build a scalable organization
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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/
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
In this episode of Mik + One, Mik’s guest is Heather Munoz, Head of Retail Brokerage Practice, E*TRADE.
In this episode, Mik and Heather discuss many topics including:
- The importance of an effective tool network and how it supports an organization’s value streams
- Using visualization and data to get people to understand systems thinking approach in order to deliver more value to the customer
- Thinking in flow metrics and using them to help shift to product thinking
- Characteristics of a good leader and how showing empathy can lead to greater results
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For more information about Heather Munoz, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/heather-munoz/
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
In this episode of Mik + One, Mik continues the conversation with Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates, a product development consulting firm located in Redondo Beach, CA, and author of three best-selling books on product development: Developing Products in Half the Time; Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit; and The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development.
The second part of this two-part special includes discussions around:
- Assessing the reserve buoyancy of a project.
- Using loss of safety margin as a leading indicator of project deterioration
- Becoming more rigorous about how we think about technical debt
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For more information about Don Reinertsen, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/don-reinertsen-part-2/
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
In the twelfth Mik + One, Mik sits down with Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates, a product development consulting firm located in Redondo Beach, CA, and author of three best-selling books on product development: Developing Products in Half the Time; Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit; and The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development.
A wide variety of topics were discussed in the first half of this special two-part episode, including:
- Viewing product development decisions as economic tradeoffs
- Shifting from deterministic planning models to a stochastic perspective
- Managing the Fuzzy Front End: the time from opportunity identification to commitment
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For more information about Don Reinertsen, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/don-reinertsen-part-1