Joshua Barnes was honoured to be among the esteemed speakers at BU’s Agile Innovation Lab’s third annual “Agile Value and Innovation Conference on Value Creation” on January 12, 2023. 

The Boston University Agile Innovation lab is a resource for the agile project management community providing programs and resources to develop the skills and careers of aspiring and current agile professionals. As a volunteer-led professional association whose mission is to educate agilists of all experience levels, foster the community, and promote agile principles and practices,  relying on members’ skills and initiative to plan and run thought-provoking events, programs, and blogs that promote learning, sharing, and networking in a friendly environment

Joshua presented “Disciplined Agile Value Stream Management”

Delivering value continues to increase in complexity and is driven more than ever by digital transformations. The result is a growing emphasis on dependency management and coordination – but that will only get you so far. As organizations realize the benefits of improving their value streams, PMOs and Project Professionals need to pivot from focusing on the project or scope to the value delivered.

Does this sound familiar:

•  It takes too long to get anything done We have
• We have so much work in progress; we are just firefighting
• No one has any visibility into what teams are doing
• Our teams are arranged in ways that create many dependencies

The advantages of improving the flow of value delivered to customers are numerous.

This presentation introduces you to the minimum business increment (MBI) and the idealized value stream, the foundation of Disciplined Agile’s value stream management approach. 

Joshua Barnes is the Founder of Process Mentors, Inc, a consultancy focused on improving ways of working. Over the past two decades, Joshua and his staff have had a breadth of engagements, including culture change, increasing productivity while reducing risk and waste and focusing on the fewest things that significantly impact people, performance and outcomes. 

Joshua’s focus is Disciplined Agile and Value Stream Management, improving the environment in which delivery teams work thus increasing the flow of value to the customer. 

Process Mentors Inc is a  PMI Authorized Training and Consulting Partner. Joshua is a Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC), Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) and DASM/DASSM/DAVSC/DAC Instructor. He is a recognized leader in virtual training and coaching and has trained thousands of people, in both co-located as well as virtual live formats on their Disciplined Agile journey. He is an international speaker, LinkedIn Learning author, host of several live stream series and a published author.