Disciplined Agile

Blaine has been working using an 'iterative' approach to IT service delivery for decades.  In recent years he was introduced to Disciplined Agile (DA) by Brent Reed, a Certified Disciplined Agile Coach (CDAC) and Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor (CDAI). 

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Now, Blaine is a Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Maser (DASSM) and a DA Instructor.

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The following is a summary of some of the key points about DA.

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Why DA?

• DA is a process-decision toolkit

• Complimentary with classic project management (e.g. guidance on risk management and governance)

• Provides:

  • Straightforward guidance to help people, teams, and organizations streamline their processes in a context-sensitive manner

  • A process foundation for business agility – assists organizations choose their agile way of working (WoW)

  • An ‘umbrella’ over all of the Agile landscape

  • A technique for guided continuous improvement (Kaizen loops: Plan, Do, Study, Act)

• Who can benefit from DA:  EVERYONE (from both an IT and non-IT perspective)

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Combines Strategies from a Range of Sources

• Scrum

• Agile

• Lean

• Kanban

• PMBoK Guide

• SAFe

• Unified Process (UP)

• Extreme Programming (XP)

• DevOps

• 'Traditional'

• Agile Modeling

• Agile Data

• And more...
   

Levels of the DA Framework

• Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

• Disciplined DevOps

• Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)

• Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
   

DA Principles

• Delight Customers

• Context Counts

• Choice is Good

• Pragmatism

• Be Awesome

• Optimize Flow

• Enterprise Awareness

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