CL223: Getting Into Creative Flow - Interview with Mik Kersten

Dr. Mik Kersten started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he created the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over one million lines of open-source code that is still in use today, and he has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market. He is the author of Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. In this episode, we cover: 2:54 – Getting into the flow of writing code 3:16 – Introversion to Extroversion 5:16 – Setting up flow blocks 6:37 – Getting things done 7:49 – Scheduling recurring events 8:44 – Understanding your energy levels 11:51 – Digital disruption 14:33 – Value streams 16:28 – Project Management vs Agile 18:46 – Software as a creative discipline 18:58 – Flow and feedback 21:40 – DevOps 21:50 – Lean Startup 22:48 – Mik's 'lightbulb moment' 24:30 – Steve Blank Resources mentioned in this episode: twitter.com/mik_kersten Tools: Slack Album: House or Baroque If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show. The post CL223: Getting Into Creative Flow - Interview with Mik Kersten appeared first on James Taylor.