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Disciplined Agile Takes the Mystery Out of Agile The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework describes how: Agile solution delivery works from beginning to end in a streamlined manner How DevOps works in enterprise-class settings How all aspects of your Information Technology (IT) processes fit together How business agility works in practice DA provides a comprehensive description of how agile works in practice © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Speeds Up Agile Transformation Agile transformations, and process improvement in general, take time The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework encompasses: The principles and philosophies for “being agile” Lifecycles, practices, and options for “doing agile” Advice for how it all fits together in a comprehensive whole DA shares proven strategies that would normally take months or years for you to figure out on your own © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Provides Context-Sensitive Advice Every person, team, and organization is unique in their own way Prescriptive, “one size fits all” strategies don’t work well in practice There is no silver bullet method applicable to all enterprises and all solutions Disciplined Agile is inclusive of other well established methods and practices, rather than exclusive The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework: Makes your process choices explicit via its goal-driven approach Supports multiple solution delivery lifecycles Provides light-weight guidance for making effective choices Choice is good, making intelligent choices is better Comprehensive set of predefined goals that can be augmented and tailored to meet the needs of individual projects provides guidance, not prescriptions, enabling you to easily tailor a strategy that reflects the situation that your team finds itself in process-oriented choices that define the trade-offs Based on hundreds of enterprises around the world in a wide range of industries and environments Each goal has a set of defining factors each of which has a set of options that the teams can select. The factors vary by goal. The options for each factor often range from ignore to formal acceptance. Inception goals focus on setting up a solution to work within the enterprise Construction goals focus on incrementally building an enterprise solution Transition goals have only one focus; to get the solution out to production Ongoing goals focus on: Team goals - growing the team members, and improving the process Project goals – Fulfilling the team mission and mitigating risk Enterprise goals – enhance existing infrastructure and coordinate activities Support for: Scrum Lean Kanban Continuous delivery and Hybrids SAFe © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Extends Scrum The Scrum method is purposefully sparse, leaving most process details up to you Determining how to make Scrum work in practice can be a slow and expensive strategy ”Failing Fast” as a mechanism to learn and adapt has merit, but applying proven techniques from Disciplined Agile reduces failure in the interest of “Succeeding Earlier” The Discipline Agile (DA) framework: Extends Scrum to address the full delivery lifecycle Describes how to address technical aspects of software-development – including analysis, design, programming, testing, deployment, and more – that Scrum purposefully doesn’t Describes how to govern Scrum teams in an agile/lean manner Disciplined Agile does the “heavy lifting” on process issues that Scrum leaves to you Extends Scrum’s focus on construction to address full delivery lifecycle from beginning to end – Inception, Construction, Transition Addresses all aspects of solution delivery (including architecture, design, testing, programming, …) not just collaboration and work management Focuses on complete solution delivery, not just software Pragmatic and easy to tailor, over Scrum’s “Scrumbut” dogmatism Supports multiple lifecycles, whereas Scrum supports one Process decision framework, not just an agile method Scalable from a single team to the entire enterprise, whereas Scrum is single team and Nexus multi-team program © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Enables SAFe The SAFe framework is sparse when it comes to solution delivery details SAFe is very prescriptive and targeted at a narrow problem space SAFe has more than 35% waste built into its framework for managing, planning, and coordinating large groups of agile teams The Discipline Agile (DA) framework: Supports many delivery lifecycles to accommodate Scrum, Lean, and other philosophies Takes a flexible, goal driven approach Addresses aspects of IT that are missing or very sparse in SAFe Addresses organizational/enterprise processes missing in SAFe that are required for business agility Promotes respectable certifications that must be earned, not bought Disciplined Agile provides the solid delivery foundation missing from SAFe DA addresses the full delivery lifecycle in detail Focuses on solutions, not just sofware Pragmatic and easy to tailor, SAFe is mostly prescriptive with little tailoring advice DA supports four lifecycles from beginning, SAFe supports two after the fact Scalable from single teams to the enterprise from the ground up, targeted at large programmes Supported by respectable certification that needs to be earned, ensuring DA practitioners know what they’re doing © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Scales Tactically Organizations are now applying agile techniques on on large teams, on geographically distributed teams, in regulatory situations, using complex technologies, and addressing complex problems The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework: Describes agile solution delivery comprehensively Surfaces process decisions and gives people practical choices Promotes a light-weight, governed approach to solution delivery DA provides a solid foundation from which to scale tactically Supports successful scaling of agile and lean techniques Defines full delivery lifecycles Provides a breadth of software development advice Goal driven approach provides the required flexibility for tailoring your agile process to meet the challenges faced by agile teams working at scale Builds in many foundational concepts required at scale, including: DevOps, explicit agile governance, and enterprise awareness. describes several strategies for organizing large or geographically distributed teams describes a range of options for scaling your approach to agile and lean software development, giving you context-sensitive options © Disciplined Agile Consortium

DA Shows How to Scale Strategically To succeed in the marketplace you need an agile IT organization to support your agile/lean enterprise The Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework: Shows how to optimize workflow throughout the entirety of IT Describes a flexible, goal-driven approach to critical IT activities such as portfolio management, enterprise architecture, data management, reusing engineering, and more Supports a comprehensive, disciplined approach to DevOps DA shows how to optimize the whole of IT, not just locally optimize software development Supports successful scaling of agile and lean techniques Defines full delivery lifecycles Provides a breadth of software development advice Goal driven approach provides the required flexibility for tailoring your agile process to meet the challenges faced by agile teams working at scale Builds in many foundational concepts required at scale, including: DevOps, explicit agile governance, and enterprise awareness. describes several strategies for organizing large or geographically distributed teams describes a range of options for scaling your approach to agile and lean software development, giving you context-sensitive options © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile is Enterprise Ready Agile strategies are being adopted in enterprise-class settings that have significant legacy investments in technology and people experienced in traditional IT There is significant technical and cultural debt to be overcome The Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework: Focuses on solutions, not just software Promotes enterprise awareness and optimizing the whole Supports agile/lean governance and leadership strategies Addresses organizational/enterprise areas such as Finance, Procurement, Marketing, and many more DA provides pragmatic advice for apply agile strategies in enterprise-class environments Process defines delivery of solutions that comprise software, hardware changes, supporting documentation, improved business processes, and even organizational changes © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile Evolves Empirically We’re constantly learning as practitioners, learning about and experimenting with new agile and lean strategies all of the time.  These learnings are constantly being applied to evolve the Disciplined Agile framework © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Disciplined Agile is Pragmatic, Not Purist Disciplined Agile is being applied by teams: As small as two people to teams numbering in the hundreds That are co-located to teams that are globally distributed That face no regulatory compliancy to life-critical compliancy Where some team members are working for different companies, including offshore In simple to very complex problem domains In simple to very complex technical domains Your teams need to tailor their strategy to address the situation that they face, and sometimes that’s not “pure agile” © Disciplined Agile Consortium

© Disciplined Agile Consortium Disciplined Agile Increases The Chance of Success of Your Agile Transformation Agile transformations must address the inherent complexities of your organization The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework: Supports several lifecycles Shows how solution delivery works from beginning to end Provides contextual practices, not prescriptive “best practices” Addresses all aspects of solution delivery, not just software development Goes beyond software development to address a holistic vision for agile IT DA addresses the full range of issues that you will run into when transforming your organization, providing insight into how to apply agile strategies in your actual environment © Disciplined Agile Consortium

Why Disciplined Agile (DA)? DA takes the mystery out of agile software development DA speeds up your agile transformation DA enables context-sensitive process choices DA extends Scrum DA provides a foundation to make SAFe work DA provides a foundation from which to scale agile tactically DA shows how to scale strategically to IT DA is enterprise ready DA evolves empirically DA is pragmatic, not purist DA increases the chance of success of your agile transformation © Disciplined Agile Consortium

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© Disciplined Agile Consortium The Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC) supports and evolves the Disciplined Agile process decision framework. The DAC site, DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org, provides information on curriculum and learning resources for Disciplined Agile practitioners. It is also the home of the Disciplined Agile certification program. The Disciplined Agile information site, DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com, provides a wealth of articles and blog postings about Disciplined Agile topics. The Disciplined Agile discussion forum, LinkedIn.com/groups/4685263, is a meeting place for Disciplined Agile practitioners to share their experiences and to get questions answered. © Disciplined Agile Consortium