Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten

Mik Kersten
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Company: 
Tasktop
Username: 
beatmik
Job Function: 
Development
Location: 
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Industry: 
Computer Software - SaaS
Member For: 
8 years 6 months
Interests: 
Agile
DevOps
Personal Bio: 

Dr. Mik Kersten is the bestselling author of Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he built the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development environments with Agile and DevOps tools during 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 are still in use today, and has brought seven successful open-source and commercial products to market. Mik’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical gap between business leaders and technologists, resulting in his creation of the Flow Framework™ to connect strategy to delivery.