Mik Kersten is the author of "Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework" (2018) and creator of the Flow Framework for measuring software delivery. Kersten explicitly built on Reinertsen's queueing-theory-applied and flow-control concepts, identifying principles-of-product-development-flow as the foundational text for understanding the shift from project to product orientation.
Kersten featured Reinertsen on his "Mik + One" podcast (see mik-kersten-reinertsen-interview), where Reinertsen discussed the conceptual and theoretical foundations for flow load and wip-constraints that underpin Kersten's practical framework. The connection illustrates how Reinertsen's theoretical work continues to generate new practical methodologies — from david-anderson's Kanban to dean-leffingwell's SAFe to Kersten's Flow Framework.