1. The Disciplined Agile Framework
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Agenda
The Disciplined Agile Framework
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Disciplined DevOps
Disciplined IT (DAIT)
Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
Parting thoughts
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3. The Disciplined Agile Framework
The Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision framework describes light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their information technology (IT) and business processes in a context-sensitive manner. The DA framework provides the process foundation for business agility.
DA does this by showing how the various activities such as solution delivery, operations, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, finance, security, legal, and many others work together.
The DA framework also describes what these activities should address, provides a range of options for doing so, and describes the tradeoffs associated with each option.
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4. The Disciplined Agile Framework
Agile Enterprise
Disciplined
Agile IT
Disciplined
DevOps
DAD
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5. The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile
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The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile
What does it mean to be disciplined? To be disciplined is to do the things that you know are good for you, things that usually require hard work and perseverance. It requires discipline to regularly delight your customers. It takes discipline for teams to become awesome. It requires discipline for leaders to ensure that their people have a safe environment to work in. It takes discipline to recognize that you need to tailor your approach for the context that you face, and to evolve your approach as the situation evolves. It takes discipline to recognize that you are part of a larger organization, that you should do what’s best for the enterprise and not just what’s convenient for you. It requires discipline to evolve and optimize your overall workflow, and it requires discipline to realize that you have many choices regarding how you work and organize yourselves, so you should choose accordingly.
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6. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Introduction to DAD
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
The key characteristics of DAD:
People-first
Goal-driven
Hybrid agile
Learning-oriented
Full delivery lifecycle
Solution focused
Risk-value lifecycle
Enterprise aware
Foundation of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework
The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) decision process framework is a people-first, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. It has a risk-value delivery lifecycle, is goal-driven, is enterprise aware, and is scalable.”
Many organizations start their agile journey by adopting Scrum because it describes a good strategy for leading agile software teams. However, Scrum is only part of what is required to deliver sophisticated solutions to your stakeholders. Invariably teams need to look to other methods to fill in the process gaps that Scrum purposely ignores. When looking at other methods there is considerable overlap and conflicting terminology that can be confusing to practitioners as well as outside stakeholders. Worse yet people don’t always know where to look for advice or even know what issues they need to consider. To address these challenges the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process decision framework provides a more cohesive approach to agile solution delivery.
There are clearly some interesting aspects to the DAD framework. DAD is a hybrid approach which extends Scrum with proven strategies from Agile Modeling (AM), Extreme Programming (XP), Unified Process (UP), Kanban, Lean Software Development, Outside In Development (OID) and several other methods. DAD is a non-proprietary, freely available framework. DAD extends the construction-focused lifecycle of Scrum to address the full, end-to-end delivery lifecycle from project initiation all the way to delivering the solution to its end users. It also supports lean and continuous delivery versions of the lifecycle: unlike other agile methods, DAD doesn’t prescribe a single lifecycle because it recognizes that one process size does not fit all. DAD includes advice about the technical practices such as those from Extreme Programming (XP) as well as the modeling, documentation, and governance strategies missing from both Scrum and XP. But, instead of the prescriptive approach seen in other agile methods, including Scrum, the DAD framework takes a goals-driven approach. In doing so DAD provides contextual advice regarding viable alternatives and their trade-offs, enabling you to tailor DAD to effectively address the situation in which you find yourself. By describing what works, what doesn’t work, and more importantly why, DAD helps you to increase your chance of adopting strategies that will work for you.
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7. Workflow of Disciplined DevOps
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8. Workflow of Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)
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9. Workflow of a Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
A Disciplined Agile Enterprise is able to anticipate and respond swiftly to changes in the marketplace.  It does this through an organizational culture and structure that facilitates change within the context of the situation that it faces.  Such organizations require a learning mindset in the mainstream business and underlying lean and agile processes to drive innovation.
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Parting Thoughts
This was a very high-level overview of the Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework
Improvement requires hard work, there are no easy solutions
Every organization is unique, one size does not fit all – Beware prescriptive methods
The DA framework looks at the whole picture to address the question of how does it all fit together
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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 blog, DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com, provides a wealth of articles and blog postings about Disciplined Agile topics. The Disciplined Agile discussion forum, LinkedIn.com/groups/ , is a meeting place for Disciplined Agile practitioners to share their experiences and to get questions answered.
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