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

Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Scott Densmore, VP of Engineering at GitHub, to discuss the future of connected work and the impact of GitHub Copilot on developer productivity. GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool that provides code completion and suggestions to developers, allowing them to write code faster and more efficiently. Scott shares the history of GitHub Copilot and how it has evolved to become a game-changer in the world of software development. He also talks about developer flow and happiness and explains how Copilot enhances these aspects by reducing toil and increasing productivity. 
Listen as Mik and Scott discuss the potential for customization and extensibility in Copilot, allowing developers to build their agents and their skills to further enhance their workflows.  
Key discussions include: 
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool that provides code completion and suggestions to developers, increasing productivity and reducing toil. 
Copilot has been in development for several years, with a focus on fine-tuning the models and prompts to provide accurate and helpful suggestions across multiple programming languages. 
Studies have shown that developers using Copilot can complete tasks in significantly less time, leading to increased productivity and happiness. 
Customization is a key feature of Copilot, allowing developers to build models on top of their own code and improve the accuracy of suggestions. 
The introduction of chat functionality in Copilot allows developers to ask questions, get explanations of code, and even generate tests or refactorings. 
GitHub is working on an extensibility platform for Copilot to enhance their workflows and bring in expertise from various tools and services. 
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Additional Resources: 
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 
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Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Professor Mohan Sawhney, Associate Dean of Digital Innovation and a Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University. ​
Sawhney discusses the evolution and importance of product management as a discipline. He emphasizes the need for formal training and frameworks in product management and highlights the role of product managers as mini CEOs and customer advocates. Sawhney also explores the challenges and opportunities in implementing product management in different industries, including technology companies, B2B industrial companies, and service-based organizations. 
Listen as Mik and Sawhney explore the impact of generative AI on product management, and highlight its potential to enhance day-to-day tasks and improve efficiency and effectiveness
Key discussions include:
Understanding customer problems and exceeding customer needs
The product manager’s crucial role as orchestrator, mini CEO, and customer advocate 
The discipline of product management 
The potential for growth and adoption in various industries
Executive sponsorship and implementing organizational structure 
Expansion of product management beyond tech companies to B2B and services industries
Rethinking structure, incentives, and process
Exploring how to implement product management in organizations
How Generative AI can improve persona development, wireframing, and roadmap optimization
AI Product management and how it is redefining efficiency for the future
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Additional Resources:
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
Join the Flow Framework Community

Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Pallab Chatterjee, a visionary entrepreneur and technology expert. Pallab is currently the chairman of 3Lines VC, a boutique VC firm specializing in investments in AI-focused companies in the US and India. Pallab shares his journey from running a research lab at Texas Instruments to becoming the CEO of IT Technologies and Symphony Retail AI. Mik and Pallab discuss the TI-84 and TI-86 calculators, which Pallab helped bring to market, and how they revolutionized the industry. They discuss the importance of understanding waste and its impact on organizational capacity and the role of finance in driving digital transformation. 
Mik and Pallab also discuss the importance of actionable visibility and the challenges of implementing predictive and prescriptive models in organizations.
Key discussions include: 
The story behind the Ti 84 and Ti 86 calculators
Understanding waste and its impact on organizational capacity 
The role of finance in driving digital transformation
The role of AI and digital disruption in shaping the future of work
Advice for organizations looking to embrace digital transformation
The PDCA cycle and the importance of actionable visibility
The challenges of implementing predictive and prescriptive models in organizations
Understanding waste and rework cycles in software organizations
The need for a metadata layer to operate on an enterprise relational database
How organizations can avoid stagnation or falling behind
The importance of customer-centricity and quantifying pain levels
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Additional Resources:
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
Join the Flow Framework Community

Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is technology visionary George Kadifa to discuss generative AI and its potential impact on the tech industry.
George discusses how generative AI has changed the conversation with machines, allowing them to generate new content, code, images, and videos in a multi-modal fashion. This development is expected to be even bigger than all the previous tech transformations combined. George Kadifa has a long history of predicting tech trends and capitalizing on them. He believes that generative AI is set to revolutionize the scientific method by being able to comprehend complex situations with billions of parameters, which could have huge implications for medicine and other areas of science. 
Mik and George also discuss how the development of deep learning has led to a shift from workflow-based software to information-based software, with the ability to create predictive and generative capabilities.

Key discussions include: 
The Impact of Generative AI on the Technology and Enterprise Landscape
Generative AI and its Implications for the Creative Industry
The Impact of AI on the Future of Technology and Workflows
The Potential of AI to Transform Software Development
The Benefits of Value Stream Management and AI for Improved Productivity
The Power of Data in Generative AI
Workflow Automation and Insight-Driven Analytics on Business Processes
The Increase in Complexity of Software Development 
Interplay Between Cloud Vendors and AI Model Development
The Future of Language Modeling and Information Protection
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In this episode of Mik + One, we’re flipping the script!
Debbie Konrad, an early Value Stream Management advocate, interviews Mik. The two discuss a new report, the 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report, that analyzed anonymized data from 2022 of 3600+ software delivery teams representing over 38,000 business product owners and engineers combined with 326 targeted survey respondents in 34 of the world’s leading enterprises. It revealed that five years into the shift from project to product, following the publication of Mik's seminal book on the subject, only 8 percent of sample have operationalized the product model.
Debbie and Mik discuss how the report’s findings are timely and relevant, as technology leaders are under increasing pressure to match tech giants and unicorns on digital innovation and wrestle the competitive advantage from the hands of a few companies. In this episode, Mik shares how to shift the management approach in digital portfolios from a project to a product-based model.
Debbie and Mik also address the importance of combining systems data with survey data in order to provide additional insights into the adoption curve of value stream management.
Key discussions include: 
The 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report
The seven dimensions of change required for a product operating model
Product Management Maturity
Insights from the 2021 State of Value Stream Management Report
The Journey from Product Experimentation to Operationalization
Survey Responses and System Data on Product Operating Model Transformations
Autonomy and Dependencies for High Performance Teams
The Benefits of Value Management for Software Development Teams
Implementing Build and Run Teams for Software at Scale
The Importance of Backlog Management and Prioritization in Product Management
Creating an Effective Product Management Function: Strategies for Success
Exploring the Benefits of Flow Metrics for Improved Efficiency and Time to Market
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Additional Resources:
Download the 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report and connect with Debbie
Portfolio SAFe
Dean Leffingwell on the Mik + One Podcast: Part 1, Part 2
MarTech
Dave West - podcast episode
Learn more and join the Flow Framework Community here
For more information on the 2023 Project to Product State of the Industry Report, go here: https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/mik-kersten-interview

Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Carol Houle, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Financial Services and Insurance at Atos. With over two decades of experience in building and renovating businesses seeking to focus on strategic digital transformations, Carol shares success stories and challenging lessons she has learned in her professional journey. Carol and Mik talk about the complexities of agile transformation, and the role that education can play in optimizing value streams.  
Mik and Carol also have a transformative discussion about how the shift from project to product is actually a shift of mindset, and for a shift of mindset to occur acknowledgment from a higher place within individuals, and fundamentally within the organization, is crucial. 
Key discussions include:  
Carol’s background and history in the industry 
Improving technology in the last decade 
What is agile transformation? 
How to measure improvement and maintain autonomy  
The need for shifting mindsets and education 
Special focus sessions for executives and how they can be utilized 
The value of servant leadership and empowerment  
Setting up systems that include feedback loops to create a sense of control 
Instrumentation of business value to connect to your business strategy 
Why digital transformation is the vehicle for building relationships
Subscribe to the Mik + One podcast today so you never miss an episode and don’t forget to leave your review. 
Follow Mik on Twitter: 
@mik_kersten #MikPlusOne 
www.tasktop.com 
Additional Resources: 
Connect with Carol 
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 on Carol Houle, please visit: https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/carol-houle/