an executive's guide to disciplined agile: winning the race to business agility

Who We Are

Scott Ambler [email protected]

@scottwambler

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Mark Lines [email protected] @mark_lines

We will take questions at the end...



Agenda

•  Our Premise •  The Race Car Metaphor •  The Scope of Disciplined Agile •  Why Disciplined Agile? •  The Principles of Disciplined Agile •  Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) •  Disciplined DevOps •  Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT) •  The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE) •  Parting Thoughts

Our Premise

Every business is a software business

Every industry is being disrupted

Agile firms dominate

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Agile software teams are building awesome race car engines…


…but they are surrounded by organizational tractors


To win the race we need to build a high performing race car…


…supported by an effective team to race it…


…and an organization that can leverage it to serve customers


Disciplined Agile Enterprise

Disciplined Agile IT

Disciplined DevOps

DAD

The Disciplined Agile Framework


http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/the-agile-tractor-engine-analogy/

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Why Disciplined Agile?

•  Every person, team, and organization is unique – DA provides the flexibility to easily tailor your approach

•  Organizations are complex adaptive systems (CASs) – DA shows how everything fits together

•  Software development, and IT in general, is complex – DA provides choices to address these complexities

•  Just because you’re unique, you don’t need to discover everything from scratch – DA is a hybrid of strategies

•  Successful improvement efforts focus on people/culture, process, and tooling – DA provides the process options you need to succeed


The Principles of Disciplined Agile


Delight Customers

Be Awesome

Pragmatism

Context Counts

Choice is Good

Optimize Flow

Enterprise Awareness

Exercise: Context Counts

•  5 minutes

•  Individually: –  There are two radar charts to fill out:

•  Your current or most recent agile/lean team •  Your organization

–  If you don’t have agile team experience, pair with someone at your table who does

–  Fill out each chart as instructed on the sheets •  As a table:

–  Show each other your filled in radar charts –  Choose the hardest team scenario –  Choose the hardest organization scenario –  Choose someone to share with the class


Context Counts

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)


The key characteristics of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD):

–  People-first –  Goal-driven –  Hybrid agile –  Learning-oriented –  Full delivery lifecycle –  Solution focused –  Risk-value lifecycle –  Enterprise aware


DAD Provides Choices


Choice is Good

Agile

Lean

Continuous Delivery: Agile

Continuous Delivery: Lean

Exploratory

Tactical Scaling


Context Counts

Scrum

Extreme Programming

Lean Kanban

DA is a Hybrid Framework

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Unified Process Agile Modeling

Agile Data “Traditional” Outside In Dev.

DevOps …and more

DA leverages proven strategies from several sources, providing a decision framework to guide your adoption and

tailoring of them in a context-driven manner.

SAFe

Pragmatism

Disciplined DevOps


Conventional DevOps

But this is missing several important issues: –  Only teams doing Continuous Delivery can do DevOps? Really? –  Security – DevSecOps???? –  The business – BizDevOps???? –  Data management – DevDataOps???? –  Explicit Release Management (for large organizations) –  Explicit Support (for large organizations)


Disciplined Agile DevOps


Optimize Flow

The Disciplined Agile IT Department



Workflow of a Disciplined Agile IT Department

Workflow of a Disciplined Agile IT Department


“DAD provides the consistency top-down of a framework with the flexibility of approach at the team level”

-  Jon Smart, Barclays UK

Be Awesome

The Disciplined Agile Enterprise


The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DA 3.0)

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.



A DAE Offers Value Streams


Delight Customers

The Principles of Disciplined Agile


Delight Customers

Be Awesome

Pragmatism

Context Counts

Choice is Good

Optimize Flow


•  Disciplined Agile provides flexible and pragmatic guidance for the complexities of Enterprise development

•  Better choices lead to better outcomes

Join the DA Community!

Anyone who attends a Disciplined Agile webinar or workshop is entitled to sign up at DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org to register for the designation “Disciplined Agilist”

Seriously though, the DA designation is an important first step towards earning an actual DA certification, such as: More importantly, it gives you access to our “members only” information and webinars at DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org


mark [at] scottambler.com scott [at] scottambler.com

@mark_lines @scottwambler

DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com

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Disciplined Agile

Thank You!


Additional Slides


Shuhari and Disciplined Agile Certification

At the shu stage you are beginning to learn the techniques and philosophies of

disciplined agile development. Your goal is to build a strong foundation from

which to build upon.

At the ha stage you reflect upon and question why disciplined agile strategies work, seeking to understand the range

of strategies available to you and when they are best applied.

At the ri stage you seek to extend and

improve upon disciplined agile techniques, sharing your learnings with

others.


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