Curtis Hibbs and Joshua Barnes are co-creators of Applied Enterprise AI and Applied End-to-End Flow, and co-authors of the Applied End-to-End Flow book series. Their work combines enterprise diagnosis, value-delivery mechanics, and practical intervention patterns across strategy, portfolios, value streams, and teams.
Curtis Hibbs
Curtis Hibbs is an enterprise transformation and AI-adoption executive. He builds the governance, workflows, and adoption systems that link strategy to delivered results. Then he sets up measurement to show whether those results are achieved. His focus is the design of work: how people, AI, information, and decisions combine to deliver value.
At Boeing, Curtis was Chief Agile Evangelist and Tech Fellow. He founded and led the company-wide Lean+Agile transformation across a 5,500-engineer function. The transformation extended software engineering improvements into hardware disciplines where delivery required system-wide coordination. His career spans aerospace, defense, financial services, healthcare, and technology startups.
Curtis spent nearly six years at the Project Management Institute advancing the Disciplined Agile body of knowledge and co-creating Disciplined Agile Next with Joshua. He is a Founding Fellow and former Board Member of the Lean Systems Society. He wrote The Art of Lean Software Development. Earlier in his career, he invented real-time closed captioning for broadcast television.
Joshua Barnes founded Process Mentors. He created e2e Flow, a reference model used worldwide. The model shows how value is delivered from ideation through consumable release. It also exposes systemic constraints in delivery systems. He co-created Applied End-to-End Flow and, with Curtis Hibbs, co-authors the Applied End-to-End Flow Series.
For over two decades, Joshua has guided Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and enterprises across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and retail. He focuses on improving end-to-end flow of value delivery, 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. He has served on the Value Stream Management Consortium board. He co-created Disciplined Agile Next. IBM first released Disciplined Agile in 2012. He is one of the few consultants globally to have maintained an active Disciplined Agile consulting engagement every year since.
