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

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 P...

In this episode of Mik + One, the official Project to Product podcast, Mik is joined by Dominica DeGrandis, Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop and Author of “Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow.” In this episode, Mik and Dominica cover a variety of topics, including: Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on organizations, and advice for leaders, teams and ind...

Recorded at the 2019 annual SEACON conference in London, Mik has two special guests, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. This episode of Mik + One discusses: Insights into the patterns and anti-patterns of how teams are structured and evolve, and why it’s important to focus on the cognitive load of teams Team speciali...

Recorded at the annual 2019 SEACON Conference in London, today Mik’s plus one is Jon Smart, Partner, Business Agility at Deloitte. In this episode of Mik + One, Mik and Jon discuss: The value and importance of focusing on “Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier” and why Agile is no longer the answer The importance of senior leaders implementing a mindset shift and focusing on outcomes instead of out...

In the eighth episode of Mik + One, the official Project to Product podcast, Mik’s guest is Dean Leffingwell, Co-founder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile. In this episode, Mik and Dean cover: SAFe 5.0 and the importance of having business agility in addition to technical agility The different types of customers and understanding why internal customers are just as valuable and important as e...

In the seventh episode of Mik + One, Mik’s guest is Dave West, CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org. In this episode, Mik and Dave discuss: The digital age and how traditional enterprises can transform to become - software-driven businesses The risk of falling into an industrial mindset trap, and what organizations can do differently to avoid failures How digital natives have achieved the innovation...

Joining Mik for the sixth episode of Mik + One is Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner for Azure DevOps at Microsoft, and a regular keynote speaker at industry-wide events, and the author of four fantastic books. In this episode, Mik and Sam discuss: How the current situation parallels to previous installation and deployment periods, and the patterns organizations can implement to leverage and survive...

In this episode of Mik + One, Mik’s guest is Shelley Perry, Managing Partner & Founder of ScaleLogix, who has immense experience setting tech companies up for success. The goal of ‘Project to Product’ is to help organizations prepare for the Turning Point in the Age of Software. As the world experiences an economic fallout triggered by COVID-19, it is key that organizations move quickly to adapt....

In honor of International Women’s Day 2020, Mik is joined by three incredible women within the industry: Gail Murphy, Tasktop Co-Founder, and Professor of Computer Science and VP of Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia, Nicole Bryan, Vice President of Product Development at Tasktop; and Naomi Lurie, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Tasktop. Gail, Nicole and Naomi ha...

In another fantastic episode, Mik’s plus one is Dr. Carlota Perez, author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. In this episode, Mik and Carlota discuss: Where we are in the Turning Point of the Technological Revolution, and the challenges of achieving the Golden Age What leaders in organizations and governments can do to think and act differe...

In this episode of Mik + One, Mik continues the conversation with Gene Kim, best-selling author of The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, as well as co-author of The DevOps Handbook for the second part of their discussion. This episode centers around: Insight into the Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work - why focusing on the improvement of daily work is even more crucial than the daily wo...

Introducing the first 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 the first half of this special two-part episode, Mik and Gene talk about: Gene’s journey, and how it led to The Unicorn Project The motivation and origins behind the Five Ideals and how to put them into practice...

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 brand new podcast, Mik + One, nothing is off the record as Mik sits down wi...