Cultivate the Agile Mindset and Lead with Clarity, Navigating Wisely around Potential Obstacles!
Disciplined Agile seamlessly integrates advanced considerations for enterprise-level agility while actively reinforcing the foundational principles of Agile thinking. With its versatile framework, it not only empowers organizations to adapt to diverse contexts but also equips them with the necessary tools to navigate unseen challenges effectively. This makes it a highly pragmatic choice for those seeking to adopt and scale Agile practices with confidence.
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Leverage the Power of Disciplined Agile® (DA) to Enhance Your Scrum Teams’ Efficiency
With the one-day PMI Disciplined Agile for Teams Workshop, your existing teams can swiftly evaluate their current state, pinpoint areas for improvement, and utilize the DA Browser to explore options and construct an improvement backlog. This carefully curated approach integrates agile, lean, hybrid, and traditional practices, providing a framework to design a new way of working or evolve the existing one.
By the end of the workshop, your team will have a concrete plan to enhance their processes, incorporating best-fit options into an actionable improvement backlog. Facilitated exclusively by Agile Coaches, this workshop is your gateway to continuous improvement and agile excellence.
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Fueling Organizational Success
From Project Management to Value Delivery Management
About Our New Workshop
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.
Master Value Streams and Propel Organizational Growth
The workshop emphasizes value stream orientation, addressing a common challenge in frameworks that overlook portfolio management even in small organizations. The PMI Disciplined Agile Value Stream Certificate offers a decision framework and selected quick starts, guiding practice selection and promoting continuous improvement. This comprehensive approach equips participants with valuable insights for optimizing value streams and ensuring sustained success.
Supercharge Your Career with PMP: The Ultimate Project Management Certification
PMP, the leading project management certification in North America, adds significant value by showcasing sought-after skills, dedication to excellence, and high-performance capabilities. Not only does it offer increased earning potential with a 25% higher median salary for project professionals, but it also demonstrates the ability to work smarter, achieve tangible business results, and make a substantial impact both locally and globally within your organization.
Unleashing Success: The Must-Have Project Management Certification to Pursue in the Next Few Months!
PMI and PwC Must Read Report
This report is a must-read on the xMO mindset and role in supporting a culture focused on value delivery. Explore how to develop, evaluate and evolve the xMO function in your organization
The Evolution of PMOs: Delivering Value Through xMOs
The xMO can bring tremendous benefits by facilitating alignment at all levels in a value stream, from strategic objectives to writing a line of code to releasing value to a customer.
Culture Eats Strategy
One of the best quotes from Peter Drucker is ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ You can have the best strategy, you can have the best process that you’re trying to design, but if you don’t attend to the culture, you’re not going to get very far at all.
Begin Your Journey to an Agile Way of Working
Whether you are leadership at an organization exploring the path to business agility or an individual seeking to expand your knowledge about agile ways of working adopting lean & agile principles, practices, and techniques Process Mentors can support you.
Live Training
Interactive. Collaborative. Stimulating.
Learn Disciplined Agile from the most experienced instructors in the world. We offer courses delivered both in person and virtually – public open enrollment or private and group pricing options.
Boot Camps
Less Theory. More Practical.
You will experience a balance between courseware and collaborative practical exercises in an immersive and interactive boot camp. Agile and Lean Foundations & Simulation Boot Camp. Product Owner Boot Camp. Agile & Lean for Managers Boot Camp. Leadership Team Boot Camp.
Just-In-Time Training & Coaching
Right Moment. No Waste.
The right training, at the right time, in the right amount. Training and coaching timed to when teams will put chosen practices or techniques into action. Our strategy eliminates waste in the learning process, enabling teams to put a new way of working into usage quicker and more efficiently.
Agility Health Check
Real Agile. Fake Agile.
Organizations should know if they are on a path to achieving business agility. What is the agility health of their teams? What is the agility health of the organization? Who is doing agile and who is not?
Disciplined Agile Transformation
Business Agility. Value Delivery.
Lean change approach to transformation focuses on attending to the culture, understanding what good looks like, foundational training, just-in-time training, coaching, and measuring success.
Value Stream Management
Identify. Improve.
Identify how value flows to your customers. Use the value streams as the basis for assessment and deciding on changes. Focus on flow in improving cycle and lead times.
Find World-Renowned Agile Instructors in Success Mentors U
Whether you seek to understand the insights and fundamentals of agile and lean or looking to prepare for a Disciplined Agile certification, our course offerings and workshops by world-renowned agile instructors. Success Mentors U is designed around the commitment to offer high-quality, low-cost training by using advanced training techniques.
Our Latest Published Articles
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, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Extreme Programming (XP), Unified Process (and its variants RUP, OpenUP, Enterprise UP, etc.).
All Things Value Delivery Management – Value Flow Factor 1: Small Items
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Project Manager to Value Delivery Manager
Here we have a common problem. The “agile team” comprises a product owner, team coach, and team members. Far too...
New Series for 2023: All Things Value Delivery Management
Delivering value continues to increase in complexity and is driven more than ever by digital transformations. The...
Is there a Simplified Version of Disciplined Agile?
Disciplined Agile ("DA") is a sizable body of agile and lean knowledge, and it keeps growing. Is there a simplified...
Is Disciplined Agile Too Complicated?
Last week I was asked to deliver a Disciplined Agile training course on short notice. Coverage was needed for the...
Value Creation Structure
Melvin Conway developed an adage stating, “any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a...
Roles of Value Stream Management – Part 2 of 2
This article is part 2 of 2 and focuses on a brief overview of two new roles to consider and the evolution of...
Roles of Value Stream Management – Part 1 of 2
If we move to Disciplined Agile’s strategy for Value Stream Management (VSM), are there any new roles we need to...
Feature Tetris – Value Flow Planning
How do we maximize the flow of value delivery for a Minimum Business Increment? Conduct a type of Value Flow Planning...
Value Flow Planning – MBI Tetris
How do we maximize the flow of value delivery? For example, how do we determine the potential flow of Minimum Busines...
The Idealized Value Stream
Disciplined Agile’s definition of a value stream references Wikipedia’s definition: “a value stream is the set ...
Minimum Business Increment (MBI) Example
In last week’s article, I wrote the MBI is one of the most significant additions to Disciplined Agile. That article...
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All Things Value Delivery Management – Value Flow Factor 1: Small Items
Is the size of work the minimum scope to provide value a customer can consume? In most cases, the answer is no. However, whether it is a project, business case, charter, work package, epic, etc., we can almost always identify a minimum business increment. Relentless...
Project Manager to Value Delivery Manager
Here we have a common problem. The “agile team” comprises a product owner, team coach, and team members. Far too often, I hear something like, “there are no project managers in agile.” Agile teams are empowered to make decisions and determine how to get the work done....