Episode 32: Carmen DeArdo

Joining Mik in this episode of Mik + One is Carmen DeArdo, Principal Flow Advisor and VSM Practice Lead at Tasktop, and co-author of the award-winning book, Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation.

This episode covers:

• Insight into Carmen’s early experience at Nationwide and Bell Labs, and how he has applied his experience and learnings to help other organizations today
• Carmen’s expertise with local optimization of the value stream and how he works with organizations to take those first steps in making the switch from vertical thinking to horizontal thinking
• The origins of The Flow Framework and how it has helped shift the way that organizations look at the entire value stream
• The key lessons Carmen has learned from helping larger organizations fulfill large deployments of The Flow Framework and some of the biggest surprises and learnings from the past couple of years

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Additional Resources:

• Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation by Carmen DeArdo and Jack Maher
• Patterns for Enterprise Success: The DevOps Journey at Nationwide – Carmen DeArdo and Hayden Lindsey
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford
• The Flow Framework
• Applying Dickens to DevOps – Carmen DeArdo
• Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide To Digital Transformation Wins DevOps Book of The Year

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