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

  • By: Mik Kersten
  • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (400 ratings)

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

By: Mik Kersten
Narrated by: Edward Bauer
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In the age of software, will your business dominate and maintain relevance? Or will it become a digital relic?

As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st century, just as the masters of mass production defined the landscape in the 20th. Unfortunately, business and technology leaders are woefully ill-equipped to solve the problems posed by digital transformation. At the current rate of disruption, half of the S&P 500 companies will be replaced in the next 10 years. A new approach is needed.

In Project to Product, value stream network pioneer and technology business leader Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework - a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery. The Flow Framework will enable your company's evolution from project-oriented dinosaur to product-centric innovator that thrives in the age of software. If you're driving your organization's transformation at any level, this is the audiobook for you.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Mik Kersten (P)2018 Mik Kersten

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Great book but missing the additional PDF material

The subject matter should concern anybody interested in how to link DevOps to the value generation in your business. Overall the author does a great job of advocating for the Flow Framework though details of how to implement in a large Enterprise are left out. The side-story of the authors visit to the Leipzig BMW plant and the insights gained from that contains more than a little echo of The Phoenix Project (and by implication, The Goal) and for those inspired by that book, this is one more piece of the puzzle on how business delivery needs to transform in the age of software.
However, the fact that the additional material referenced by the narrator is missing from the Audible version greatly reduces the value of the audio version.

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Additional pdf material can be found elsewhere

The additional pdf material referenced in the audio book by the author can be found here:
https://itrevolution.com/book/project-to-product/

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If it was Easy Everyone Would be Doing it

It is not hard to find blog posts and articles that chronicle failed digital transformations. This book explains why there seem to be so many examples. To the extent it can, the book also does a reasonable job in pointing the way. But it also makes the point that it is culture, processes and people all aligning to the way the business accrues value that will allow you to possibly transfer from project to product. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it ... successfully. It is not easy.

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Author should have waited a year or two

The successful companies outlined by the author are Boeing and BMW. If the author had waited it would be apparent that other companies should have been chosen.

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mostly buzzwords, almost no insight

I struggled on to the end of the book, which I regret. The 'new framework' never came. No epiphanies. All the content in this book could be summarized by 'visualize your work' and ' integrate your tools' as possible by scale.
The whole book uses examples of companies that already are successful in value flow, yet the author claims his ideas are new. Author continually says the old management/production frameworks won't work, but lean and agile underpin all his ideas.
All delivered by the voice of a dramatic used car salesman.

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Next step for any transforming organization

Great book !

Being in agile development for more than 10 years, i think this is the next step for any organization trying to manage software development and align initiatives with the business value stream.

The book paint a complete view from theory to framework and tying it back to tools.

Next step for is the implementation

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Meh - good reminder, but no new info

The message is to use product driven value to drive work, not projects. In other words, many companies define and deliver projects, but many of them do not generate customer value, and many companies do not measure customer value for each feature of their products. While this is valuable, it doesn't rate 7 hours of a book on this straight forward concept. The flow framework is not some great new framework - it just emphasizes using customer value to drive requirements, development, and to actually measure the value of what you deliver (easier said than done).

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inspiring and interwoven with stories and examples

Though it took awhile for the ideas to come together, by the end I felt like I learned a lot. I would have liked more practical implementation details, but understand that was not the intention of the book.

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Very hands-on and super relevant

How to make software delivery count and manage DevOps in the new age of software - Mik‘s book bridges the gap between known lean manufacturing and product development principles to the current realities in the cloud

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Project to product mindset shift guidelines

The ideas in the book are well laid out for the project to product mindset shift. The author references some other key influences in the software delivery continuous improvement realm. No one book can deliver every single solution for an organizational shift, but this one does a great job explaining the challenges and providing suggestions with real world examples.

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