Your path to business agility
In the bestselling book Project to Product, Planview CTO Dr. Mik Kersten introduces leaders to the missing framework needed to create a Value Stream Network — the technology equivalent of an advanced manufacturing line that comprises thousands of IT professionals.
“Decision to do one thing is a decision to delay something else” – Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible Flow Distribution is the proportion of Flow items (features, defects, debt, risk) in a specific value stream that can be adjusted depending on the need to maximize business value. Set by the workers who know best about...
“Too much WIP is the enemy of productivity,” – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible, and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop The happiness and engagement of the people who plan, build and deliver software has a direct correlation on the productivity and quality of their work. Combined with the rise of burnout in IT...
Flow time doesn’t stop the clock just because the weekend rolls around. What flow time does do is help quantify the probability of completing x percent of work in so many days – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop Every second counts in software delivery. That’s why Flow Time —...
A year ago Gene Kim and I were sitting at a bar in Detroit, discussing the Gemba Walk that we were invited to by Chris O’Malley, the CEO of Compuware. That conversation quickly turned to a problem that Gene had with the current state of The Unicorn Project. The characters were there, the plot was...
It’s been a year since the launch of Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, the bestselling book by Tasktop founder & CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten. With over 23,000 copies sold, the book currently sits within the Top 10 ‘Information Management’ bestsellers on Amazon,...
Today marks one year since Project to Product was published. The book details my journey from empathizing with the frustrations of developers trying to deliver value to customers, to empathizing with the frustrations of entire organizations dealing with the onslaught of digital disruption. Helping developers was fairly straightforward, as that could be done with tools...
It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. And while we’re happy to be away from the artificial air that’s continuously pumped out at The Cosmopolitan, we will miss the breath of fresh air that many attendees and speakers brought to the DevOps...
Over the past months, a number of Fortune 100 customers have been testing Tasktop’s new product, Planview Viz, to implement the Flow Framework™. We’re delighted to announce a limited release to a community near and dear to us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit – learn more from our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten. Day...
Gene Kim’s opening remarks to a DevOps Enterprise Summit are always a welcome tonic for the IT community. His honest and earnest insights serve as an annual reminder to “keep up the good fight” in the perpetual challenge to help traditional organizations to survive and thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption. As ever, it’s...
Scientific and technological revolutions have been catalyzed by breakthroughs in measurement. From Galileo’s telescope to tunneling electron microscopes, innovations in how we measure the world have been at the core of paradigm shifts. Measurements of the exchange of value and risk have produced the financial system that defines the world economy. With the underpinnings of...
