In this livestream short on June 5 at 9:00 am ET, Joshua Barnes and Al Shalloway discuss why visualization is so powerful – if a picture is worth a thousand words, a visualization is worth ten times a picture. 

One of the significant enablers of improving the flow of value delivery is focusing on a big culprit of inefficiency: waiting time (delays) between the value-adding tasks. This factor is almost always an area for improvement, yet no one is attending to it in most companies. We have a new mini workshop (half day) and Al and I will discuss it’s focus – how to learn about visualizing work, identifying when it is delayed, techniques for raising awareness of what is happening, and how to begin collaborating on options to reduce or eliminate the delay.

To register for the workshop: https://learn.successmentorsu.com/pages/mtwflow

Joshua Barnes, Founder of Process Mentors, Inc., a leading Agile, Lean, and Value Stream Management training and consulting firm, also serves on the Board of Directors for the Value Stream Management Consortium. With expertise as a Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC), Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC), and instructor for DASM/DASSM/DAVSC/DAC, Joshua is a renowned figure in virtual training and coaching. He has guided thousands on their Disciplined Agile journey, both in co-located and virtual live formats.

Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Success Engineering, lead designer of Amplio, taking an engineering/scientific approach to success for clients, employees, companies & society. Al has been at the forefront of design patterns, XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe and more.

As the creator of the PMI DAVSC course and the FLEX system that powers Disciplined Agile’s at scale approach and being a past SPC Trainer & Gold Partner, Al can help any agile at scale program that needs a shot in the arm. Several key insights and methods are missing in most Agile at scale programs that he can assist with in a short term consulting engagement with or without changing the framework/method being used for the adoption. His experience with patterns thinking also enables to assist enterprise architects on overall design issues.

He created Disciplined Agile’s most advanced workshop – the DA Value Stream Consultant Workshop. He is currently committed to lowering the cost of training while increasing its effectiveness by an order of magnitude each by using innovative training techniques and creating a complete system that provides you with decision-making guidance when you need it. This gives you the right information at the right time. He invites you to join one of his learning journeys where you can co-create the next generation of Agile approaches.