Optimistic About Innovation, with John Mitchell

February 6, 2019 Michael Coté

Duke Energy has been working on their software capabilities for some time now. They've recently reached a milestone by opening a brand new innovation center in Charlotte. Coté took a tour of it recently checking out the numerous product teams and their approach to exploring and building strategy, all the way from corporate strategy down to writing code. John also shares a couple of new examples of how lean product management and design in action. Also: gingham.

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Lots of SpringOne Tours coming up, here's some Coté will be at, plus some Bologna:

Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off the ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off the ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
And, check out others in a city near you: 2019 SpringOne Tours.

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A March 2019 interview Coté did with John Mitchell.

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Michael Coté works on the advocates team for VMware Tanzu. See @cote for more.
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