Joshua Barnes was honoured to be among the esteemed international experts at the Dubai International Project Management Forum from January 23-26, 2023 in Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. 

This is the region’s largest project management forum inviting 2,000 project management professionals for a learning and networking experience that prepares you for what’s next.

“Fostering Wellbeing ” is the theme for the 8th round of the DIPMF and is a perfect fit with the UAE’s strategy to enrich the well being of all community segments. It also reflects the keenness of the forum to embed the concepts and practices of well being in the work environment and raise awareness of its importance, which will help enhance productivity and performance levels.

Joshua presented “Progression from Project Management to Value Delivery Management”

As organizations realize the benefits of concentrating on improving their value streams, Project Professionals can grow into Value Delivery Managers. A crucial emerging skillset that leverages existing skills and experience of project professionals to focus on improving the flow of value delivered to customers. This session illuminates the principles, strategies and practices in Disciplined Agile’s value stream management guidance to improve the flow of value to customers. 

Does this sound familiar?

• It takes too long to get anything done
• 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

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.