Practical Guidance from Fourteen Enterprise Journeys
Ross Clanton (Foot Locker), Amy Walters (US Bank), Pat Birkeland, Mik Kersten (Lymyt), Alan Nance & Anders Wallgren (CloudBees)
This follow-up paper to 2018’s Moving from Project to Product pulls together the do’s and don’ts of enterprise product transformation.
Using the decades of experience of the authors and their peers at the DevOps Enterprise Forum, this paper compiles that knowledge into something digestible and applicable for any organizational transformation.
The transformation from project to product is broken into domains as well as different stages.
These segments contextualize the struggles and hurdles that occur at different times during the project to product transformation.
What's inside
Case Studies — This paper uses 14 real-life examples to help illustrate how to successfully transform from a project-centric organization to a product-centric organization.
Expert Authors — This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have led their own successful project to product transformations within large enterprise organizations.
Practical Guidance — The seven domains of transformation presented in this paper help readers easily understand and apply the principles to their own unique situations.
All Business Leaders — This paper is written for business leaders in all industries, regardless of if they work in the technology sector.
Dr. Mik Kersten is an independent technology strategist and researcher best known as the creator of the Flow Framework and author of the bestselling book Project to Product and the new book Output to Outcome. Mik founded Tasktop and led the company as CEO until its acquisition by Planview in 2022. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC as part of the team that created the first aspect-oriented programming language. He then completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he pioneered the integration of software development and collaboration tools. That work became the foundation for Tasktop and helped shape the emerging field of Value Stream Management. Before shifting his focus to flow, outcomes, and organizational modularity, Mik wrote more than one million lines of open-source code that are still in use today. His work now focuses on helping leaders transition from output- driven management to outcome-driven operating models, enabling organizations to harness the power of AI in a human-centric way. For more information, please visit the book‘s website at https://outputtooutcome.org/ .
Digital Transformation leader in large enterprise. Leading The Art and Science of Experience. The #DEXprophet HDI Top 25 Thought Leader, Ambassador DevOps Institute, certified XLA Master Trainer. Digital Anthropologist
