Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten
Dr. Mik Kersten: Author of Project to Product and Founder and CEO of Tasktop
63 episodes
4 months ago
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 Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne
www.projecttoproduct.org
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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.
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 Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne
www.projecttoproduct.org
Episode 49: Brendan Hopper on Lessons Learned Shifting From Project to Product
Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten
50 minutes 13 seconds
2 years ago
Episode 49: Brendan Hopper on Lessons Learned Shifting From Project to Product
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/
Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten
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 Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne
www.projecttoproduct.org