Mik Kersten on Moving from Projects to Products

Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mik Kersten of Tasktop about his new book, Project to Product and how the Flow Framework can be applied to changing the way of working in organisations. Why listen to this podcast: • The project model of software development is fundamentally broken • The management techniques which were invented in and needed for managing in the era of industrial revolution are not applicable or useful in the era of software development • Most organisations’ rate of change in improving how they build software is so slow that they are unable to compete against any of the tech giants who choose to adopt a new market • The shift from projects to products enables organisations to realise more value and respond top market changes quicker • The flow framework is a tool to help identify where to make changes based on finding the bottlenecks and releasing value in the system More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2VxhVj7 You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2VxhVj7