Achieve Business Agility with Disciplined Agile
92% of C-Level Executives believe agility is critical to business success, but only 27% consider themselves agile*.
*https://i.forbesimg.com/forbesinsights/pmi/achieving_greater_agility.pdf
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.
Lean Change Approach to Disciplined Agile Transformation
Achieve business agility by empowering a measurement driven transformation that attends to the organizational culture. Process Mentors has trained thousands of individuals and coached hundreds of teams transitioning to delivering value with Disciplined Agile.
Assessment & Adoption Strategy Options
Short assessment if transitioning from a traditional approach. Agility health check if an agile way of working is already in place. Understand the current state, understand the culture, and understand the readiness for change. Select options that are fit for purpose.
Just-In-Time Training & Coaching
Success assurance & accelerator – training at the right moment to set the context of a practice or technique combined with coaching to do the work.
What Good Looks Like
Create a transformational roadmap based on selected options and a vision for success. The focus is on outcomes rather than vanity measures. Define what good looks like and how it will be measured.
Measuring Success
Using measures from what good looks like, provide visibility into success being achieved. The goal should never be to be agile; it should be to achieve business agility and become a learning organization.
Foundational Training
Train the leadership. Train the team members together. Train the stakeholders and subject matter experts. Develop a training plan with options for the needed foundational context based on the role.
Our latest blog posts
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.).
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