Mik + One Podcast
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.
Conversations with leaders and innovators on moving from project to product.
Mik + One captures conversations with software delivery leaders and shares their journeys of introducing transformative ideas for delivering software at scale.
Episodes
Episode 52
03/21/23
Episode 51
01/24/23
Episode 50
12/20/22
Episode 49
11/22/22
Episode 48
08/29/22
Episode 47
07/19/22
Episode 46
06/17/22
Episode 45
05/03/22
Episode 44
04/05/22
Episode 43
03/15/22
Episode 42
02/22/22
Episode 41
02/01/22
To kick off the first episode of 2022, Mik is joined by two guests from Bank of New Zealand: Paul Littlefair, Chief Technology Officer, and BMK Lakshminarayanan, Value Stream Architect.
Episode 40
12/07/21
Episode 39
11/23/21
Episode 38
11/09/21
Episode 37
10/26/21
Episode 36
07/20/21
Episode 35
06/28/21
Episode 34
06/15/21
Episode 33
06/01/21
Episode 32
05/18/21
Episode 31
05/04/21
Episode 30
04/20/21
Episode 29
04/06/21
Episode 28
03/23/21
Episode 27
03/09/21
Episode 26
02/22/21
Episode 25
02/09/21
Episode 24
1/26/21
Episode 23
12/14/20
Episode 22
11/30/20
Joining Mik on this episode of Mik + One is “sage and poet of product thinking” John Cutler, Head of Product Research & Education at Amplitude. Many discussion points are included in this episode, including, rethinking how to apply product thinking to force multipliers and change steps, mapping organizational structure to strategy to drive innovation, and embracing the interplay of skills and knowledge across the organization.
Episode 21
11/17/20
Episode 20
11/03/20
Episode 19
10/19/20
Episode 18
10/06/20
Episode 17
09/22/20
Episode 16
09/08/20
Episode 15
08/25/20
Episode 14
08/11/20
Episode 13: Part 2
07/28/20
Episode 12: Part 1
07/14/20
In the twelfth Mik + One, Mik sits down with Don Reinertsen, President of Reinertsen & Associates, a product development consulting firm located in Redondo Beach, CA, and Author of three best-selling books on product development: Developing Products in Half the Time; Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit; and The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development.
Episode 11
06/30/20
In this episode of Mik + One, the official Project to Product podcast, Mik is joined by Dominica DeGrandis, Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop and Author of “Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow.”
Episode 10
06/16/20
Recorded at the 2019 annual SEACON conference in London, Mik has two special guests, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow.
Episode 9
05/26/20
Recorded at the annual 2019 SEACON Conference in London, in this episode Mik’s plus one is Jon Smart, Partner, Business Agility at Deloitte. Mik and Jon cover a variety of topics including the value and importance of focusing on ‘Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier’, the importance of focusing on outcome instead of output, and team incentivisation to reduce silos across the value stream.
Episode 8
05/12/20
In the eighth episode of Mik + One, the official Project to Product podcast, Mik’s guest is Dean Leffingwell, Co-founder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile. In this episode, Mik and Dean cover everything from SAFe 5.0 and the importance of having business agility, to abandoning organizational hierarchies, to the importance of focusing on outcome-based metrics, and more.
Episode 7
04/28/20
In the seventh episode of Mik + One, Mik’s guest is Dave West, CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org. In this episode, key discussions include how traditional enterprises can be successful in the digital age, the importance of placing small bets, and the main things that large organizations can act on now to deliver value.
Episode 6
04/14/20
Joining Mik for the sixth episode of Mik + One is Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner for Azure DevOps at Microsoft, and a regular keynote speaker at industry-wide events, and the author of four fantastic books.
Episode 5
04/02/20
In this episode of Mik + One, Mik’s guest is Shelley Perry, Managing Partner & Founder of ScaleLogix, and who has immense experience setting tech companies up for success.
Episode 4
03/08/20
In honor of International Women’s Day 2020, Mik is joined by three incredible women within the industry: Gail Murphy, Tasktop Co-Founder, and Professor of Computer Science and VP of Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia, Nicole Bryan, Vice President of Product Development at Tasktop; and Naomi Lurie, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Tasktop.
Episode 3
02/25/20
In another fantastic episode, Mik’s plus one is Dr. Carlota Perez, author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. In this episode, Mik and Carlota discuss where we are in the Turning Point of the Technological Revolution, the challenges of achieving the Golden Age, what Carlota is currently working on, and more.
Episode 2: Part 2
02/11/20
In the second episode of Mik + One, Mik continues the conversation with Gene Kim, best-selling author of The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, as well as co-author of The DevOps Handbook for the second part of their discussion on The Unicorn Project and The Five Ideals. This episode provides a deeper insight into The Third Ideal: Improvement of Daily Work, The Fourth Ideal: Psychological Safety, and the Fifth Ideal: Customer Focus.
Episode 1: Part 1
01/28/20
In the first episode of Mik + One, Mik sits down with Gene Kim, best-selling author of The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, as well as co-author of The DevOps Handbook. In part one of this special two-part episode, Mik and Gene talk about Gene’s journey, and how it led to The Unicorn Project, the profound wisdom of the First Ideal: Locality and Simplicity, and the Second Ideal: Focus, Flow and Joy.
