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The founder of Process Mentors, Joshua Barnes, has put tremendous energy into Disciplined Agile’s success. He has trained thousands of individuals and coached hundreds of teams throughout the world. Having faced all sorts of challenges, he shares his insights here.
In addition to Disciplined Agile, Joshua has experience that he draws upon with industry leading agile and lean approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Extreme Programming (XP), Unified Process (and its variants RUP, OpenUP, Enterprise UP, etc.).
Disciplined Agile Courses Now Available on LinkedIn!
I am excited to share with you that my first on-demand LinkedIn Learning course, “Introduction to Disciplined Agile,” is now live. This is the first in a suite of LinkedIn learning courses on Disciplined Agile that I will be releasing that will include covering: DA...
The Value of Process Mentors Agile and Lean Boot Camp
The learning approach that has consistently yielded the best results is our Just-In-Time training strategy. As one of the most valuable aspects of the Process Mentors transformational roadmap to achieving business agility, in almost all situations, the best option is...
Building the Bridge to Business Agility Unconference
No one needs to tell you this year has been different. Despite all of the unique and significant hardships, on the positive side, we continue to see strong interest in Disciplined Agile with practitioners and leadership. As the global pandemic emerged in every corner...
The Time is Right for a Disciplined Agile Community Space
This week, I enjoyed co-instructing with Glen Little in the delivery of the newest Disciplined Agile certification workshop, the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master “DASM”. One of the concepts we covered in that course (which has been a part of the previous certification...
Disciplined Agile for Non-Software Work
I am increasingly asked the question, “Can an agile way of working be used to deliver value not related to software?” In my experience and the Disciplined Agile toolkit’s guidance, the answer is a resounding YES! As the world is gaining more and more awareness of...
Virtual Collaboration and Process Goals
All of us are quite aware of the changes that COVID-19 brought and the need to social distance in our personal and professional lives. As organizations are coming to terms with the length of time their employees (and contractors/consultants) will be supporting...
Is it Just Time to Change Agile Training?
The benefits of Disciplined Agile are many. As a tool kit, it provides guidance to help organizations choose their way of working in a context-sensitive manner. Our strategy is similar in many ways to the adoption roadmap that has been part of Discipline Agile...
My PMO is Interested in How to Use DA, Where is a Good Place to Start?
During a recent "Ask Me Anything DA" Webinar, an experienced agile coach asked a great question that we often hear. "As an Agile Coach, I have been working with a few teams within my organization using the DA toolkit. We've seen some great success with adoption, and...