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OKRs & DevOps: From Micromanagement Misery to Finding Flow

July 13, 2021 by IT Revolution 4 Comments

Many organizations are having trouble rolling out OKRs or objectives and key results, especially when top leaders overreach into the planning process using OKRs to bludgeon their favorite project or feature into the plan. Dr. Mik Kersten, Founder and CEO of Tasktop, talked at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit about his seven years of experience using OKRs and what he's seen go right and wrong in large complex organizations. You can watch his full presentation here. I've now had eight years of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Metrics, Project to Product Tagged With: DevOps Enterprise Summit, five ideals, metrics, Mik Kersten, ORKs, planning dynamics, Project to Product

The Turning Point

August 18, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten. For the majority of our careers, those of us involved with enterprise IT have been dealing with change at a frenzied pace. Technology platforms, software development methodologies, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that few organizations have been able to match. Those that manage to keep up, such as Amazon, and Alibaba, are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, Project to Product Tagged With: age of digital, digital age, digital transformation, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, turning point, value strea, value stream networks

The Three Epiphanies of Mik Kersten

June 29, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Adapted from Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework by Mik Kersten. My career has been dedicated to understanding and improving how large-scale software is built. I spent nearly two decades working on new programming languages and software development tools, and have had a chance to work with some of the best technologists in the world. But I have come to realize that, due to where we are in the Turning Point, technology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Project to Product Tagged With: devops, IT, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, software, software delivery, value stream

Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business

January 10, 2019 by DevOps Enterprise Summit Leave a Comment

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The following is an excerpt from a presentation by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, titled "Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business." You can watch the video of the presentation, which was originally delivered at the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. For my entire career, I've been on this journey to help transform how software is built. I spent the first ten years of that journey, as a developer, writing a ton of code. I thought the problem was … [Read more...]

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Guest Post: Project to Product, Software, and Safety: Getting in the Same Plane

December 18, 2018 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Mik Kersten, author of Project to Product Project to Product tells a story of what we can learn about building software by walking down the BMW Group Leipzig plant production line. The other wonder of mass production that makes repeated appearances throughout the book is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has long been an inspiration to me and whose silhouette graces the cover of Project to Product. Not only is it a marvel of engineering and beauty, it is a marvel of supply chain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Project to Product Tagged With: bmw, boeing, business, flow framework, Gene Kim, information technology, IT, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, software delivery, value stream, value stream networks, value streams, wil pannell

Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework

November 20, 2018 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

IT Revolution is excited to announce the release of our latest book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop, has written a book that every business, big or small, will need to read if they want to survive the Age of Software. Tech giants, startups, and digital natives are disrupting every market. No one is immune. And just as happened in the Age of Manufacturing, any business that doesn’t rise to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Project to Product Tagged With: agile, book, business, CIO, devops, information technology, IT, Mik Kersten, new, operations, Project to Product, software, software delivery

Project to Product: From Stories to Scenius

November 19, 2018 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Guest Blog from Mik Kersten We learn through stories—either through our own or through those passed on by others that we admire. When I first read The Phoenix Project, I was amazed at how much technological wisdom could be passed on in story form. That story, perhaps more than any other, motivated people to find a new perspective on the current problems that plague enterprise IT, and to seek a better way.   I saw the publication of The Phoenix Project as a flare shot high into the sky, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Project to Product Tagged With: books, Gene Kim, Mik Kersten, Project to Product, The Phoenix Project

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