Why DAD? 6 Best reasons why OR Removing the pain of transformation to Agile

1) More than just Scrum or SAFe © Disciplined Agile Consortium2 DADScrumSAFe Includes: - Inception, construction, transition phases - architecture, design, testing, programming, documentation, deployment etc Focus on ConstructionBased on Scrum but layers on portfolio and programme levels Focus on complete solutionFocus on software Pragmatic – easily tailoredPrescriptiveSome flexibility Lifecycles Inclusive of: - Scrum - Lean, Kanban, Continuous, delivery and hybrids - SAFe One ApproachBased on Scrum (now supports Kanban) FrameworkMethodologyMix Scalable from single team to enterprise Targeted at single or multiple teams Targeted at large enterprises

2) Goal Driven – removes pain of transformation 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 © Disciplined Agile Consortium3

3) Multiple Lifecycles for flexibility Process defines delivery of solutions that comprise software, hardware changes, supporting documentation, improved business processes, and even organizational changes Support for: – Scrum – Lean – Kanban – Continuous delivery and – Hybrids – SAFe © Disciplined Agile Consortium4

4) Solid foundation from which to scale Agile 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 Consortium5

5) Solutions, not just software Process defines delivery of solutions that comprise software, hardware changes, supporting documentation, improved business processes, and even organizational changes © Disciplined Agile Consortium6

6) DAD is Evolving 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 DAD framework © Disciplined Agile Consortium7