The Authors

Curtis Hibbs and Joshua Barnes are co-creators of Applied Agility and co-authors of The Applied Agility Series. Every book in the series is a joint work.

Curtis Hibbs

Curtis Hibbs is a Lean-Agile thought leader advising executives on the practical mechanics of enterprise transformation. He is co-creator of Applied Agility and co-authors the Applied Agility Series with Joshua Barnes.

His career spans aerospace, defense, financial services, healthcare, and technology startups. Earlier, he served as Chief Agile Evangelist and Tech Fellow at Boeing, where he founded and led the company-wide Lean+Agile initiative. The program drove software engineering improvements at scale and extended into hardware disciplines when programs like the F-18 or flight simulators required end-to-end coordination. He is a Founding Fellow and former Board Member of the Lean Systems Society.

Curtis is the author of The Art of Lean Software Development and Ruby on Rails: Up and Running. Earlier in his career, he invented real-time closed captioning for broadcast television.

Most recently, Curtis spent nearly six years at PMI advancing the Disciplined Agile body of knowledge and co-creating Disciplined Agile Next with Joshua. Applied Agility builds forward as an independent framework.

Joshua Barnes

Joshua Barnes is the founder of Process Mentors and creator of End-to-End Flow (e2eFlow), a reference model used worldwide to make value delivery visible from ideation through consumable release and to surface systemic constraints in delivery systems. He is co-creator of Applied Agility and co-authors the Applied Agility Series with Curtis Hibbs.

For over two decades Joshua has guided Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and enterprises across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and retail. His work focuses on improving end-to-end value delivery flow, translating strategy into execution, and quantifying Cost of Delay. He has coached executives, trained thousands of practitioners, and guided hundreds of teams using Agile, Lean, Hybrid, and value stream management approaches.

Joshua is a LinkedIn Learning author, international keynote speaker, and livestream host, and has served on the board of the Value Stream Management Consortium. He is also co-creator of Disciplined Agile Next, and one of the few consultants globally to have maintained an active Disciplined Agile consulting engagement every year since its original release by IBM in 2012.

Between them, Curtis and Joshua carry decades of field experience in enterprises, regulated industries, and knowledge-work organizations. The Applied Agility Series operationalizes the framework they built together.

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