Joshua Barnes

About Joshua Barnes

As the founder of Process Mentors, an agile, lean, and value stream management training…

Experience

1. Agile Transformation & Value Stream Management Consultant

   Process Mentors, Inc

   Jul 2003 — Present

   Developing and executing sustainable organization wide transformation strategies based around a gradual migration appropriate to the readiness of each line/area of business. Provides agile transformation services including current state assessment, establishing center of excellence to foster collaboration and sharing, training curriculum development, piloting, and enterprise scaling. Delivering training, coaching and mentoring services for development teams, business roles & stakeholders, leadership/executive, supporting and oversight roles. Establishing community of practice (COP), “Office Hours”, and other support functions. Specialties: Value Stream Management, Disciplined Agile, Agile Ways of Working, Kanban, Lean, Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and more. Sample of Key Engagements: Diageo: Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach responsible for global adoption of Disciplined Agile. Developed and executed an adoption strategy which includes: delivery of Disciplined Agile Consortium courses, whole team coaching, 1-on-1 mentoring, updates to governance / procurement / tools / job descriptions / contractor engagement / enterprise process tailoring / COE creation FDIC: Joshua was the Lead Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach responsible for setting up and maintaining an Agile COE for the Program Management Office. Trained and Coached 100s of team members, mentored federal employees 1-on-1, and updated governance & procurement policies. Freddie Mac: Multiple engagements including transformation services, assessments, training, coaching, workshop development and delivery. Highmark BlueCross: Lead Coach engaged to support enterprise adoption of the Rational Unified Process injected with practices and techniques from other agile frameworks. Managed a team of coaches, ensured consistency and quality of services to the organization. Adoption covered over 2,600 team members.

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Software Development
• Insurance
• Product Owner
• Sdlc
• Scrum
• Integration
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Healthcare
• Business Process Improvement
• Test Management
• Consulting
• Coaching
• Requirements Management
• Process Improvement
• Enterprise Software
• Strategy
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Finance
• Project Portfolio Management
• Architecture
• Project Management
• Eclipse
• Process Engineering
• Cpic
• Spc4.5
• Governance
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Change Management
• Spc4
• Safe Program Consultant
• Rup
• Cmmi
• Analysis
• Disciplined Agile (Certifed Discipline Agilist)
• Software Project Management
• Quality Assurance