1. This deck describes why your organization would want to adopt the Disciplined Agile Framework
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2. Disciplined Agile Takes the Mystery Out of Agile
Software development is inherently complex
The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework describes how:
Agile solution delivery works from beginning to end in a streamlined manner
All aspects (analysis, architecture, testing, …) of solution delivery work
These aspects fit together in a pragmatic manner
DA provides a comprehensive description of how agile works in practice
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3. 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 and practices 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
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4. 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 lifecycles (A Scrum-based agile lifecycle, a lean lifecycle, a continuous delivery lifecycle, and an exploratory lean start-up lifecycle)
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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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
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7. 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
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8. DA Shows How to Scale Strategically
To succeed in the marketplace you need an agile IT organization to support your 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
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9. 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
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
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10. 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
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11. 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”
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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
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13. 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
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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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16. Why Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)?
Increased productivity
Enterprise awareness leads to better solution fit
Risk-value lifecycle streamlines development – Reduces “surprises” late in the project
DAD optimizes the solution delivery whole, not just the agile programming part
Easy to tailor
Goal-driven approach provides easy-to-follow advice
Avoids the “one size fits all” approach of other agile methods
Scalable
Enterprise awareness leads to better organizational fit
Goal-driven
Palatable
Answers many of the questions experienced agile teams are still struggling with
Reflects actual practice, not theory
The next step for teams currently doing Scrum
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