Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a human-centered, learning-oriented hybrid agile approach to IT solution delivery. DAD addresses all aspects of the entire delivery cycle and supports multiple Ways of Working (WoW) that can be tailored to each context. DAD encompasses all aspects of agile software development in a robust, pragmatic and controllable manner.
Disciplined Agile Delivery is based on a single premise: Agile work does not allow teams to be undisciplined.
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) evolved from the origins of Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Lean. As the original forms were codified, it became clear that many teams were using Agile to avoid good sustainable development practices. “We don’t do that, we’re agile” was a common phrase that frustrated many in the company. DAD offers a compromise that many people today find extremely valuable in order to fit into the organization.
The key features of Disciplined Agile Delivery are:
To achieve these goals, the Disciplined Agile Delivery process uses a hybrid framework with phases aligned to the traditional stage-gate model, from concept to retirement (disposal). The focus is generally on very large solutions that are required by or developed within large organizations that are introducing a product line.
The main difference between this model and the typical Scrum model, which starts when a team is initiated with funding, is that DAD uses a starting phase called “Inception”. During this phase, many important things happen that help with scaling:
In this phase, teams often work in functional and cross-functional groups. This initial phase enables a shared understanding that feeds into the solution development or “construction” phase.
Disciplined Agile also allows many more roles than Scrum:
Primary Roles
Team member – focuses on creating solutions for stakeholders, the Scrum “generalization specialist”
Secondary Roles
Disciplined Agile Delivery works in such a way that there are always primary roles (even if sometimes the architect and team leader are the same person). Then the secondary roles are added as needed.
To enable scaling across multiple teams, DAD uses the “Team of Teams” model, which is built on the “Scrum of Scrums” concept invented by Jeff Sutherland.
These teams of teams are then coordinated by a senior program manager as needed.
Starting from this basic scaling model, Disciplined Agile then extends these concepts to the organizational level. How can we mature the organization into a “learning” organization? The idea is that the Agile model is a starting model for Disciplined Agile that can be used to create a lean, agile organization that continually moves through the “stages” of development as needed.
Built-in concepts include the idea of scaling the “supporting cast.” Those in the secondary role can become their own agile teams, producing products that are used by the disciplined agile teams to deliver new products. Support teams encompass everything that could be described as “development operations” or DevOps:
These teams are then expanded to the entire area of product management, called “Disciplined IT”, and governance and product reuse (Commercial-off-the-shelf – COTS, Government-off-the-shelf – GOTS, Free and open -source software – FOSS) as well as enterprise architecture, human resources management and portfolio management.
Disciplined Agile goes one step further and suggests that the entire company can behave in an agile manner. Each part of the organization can be its own agile team or team of teams. This applies to sales, marketing, legal and finance departments as well as other areas of the company.
For the entire organization to be aware of its own structure, it requires “organizational assets” and the “knowledge base”. This means that the organization becomes its own market where it consumes products both internally and externally. By maintaining a central portal for access to the key information and tools needed to run the organization, each team can work without dictating to the others.
This is the realization of the ideas of an adaptive learning organization. The individual phases are listed below (abbreviated from longer forms, which you can find below
https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile/process/dae):
Do these ideas make sense to you? What type of organization do you work in? You can learn more about the concepts and ideas of Disciplined Agile Delivery here: https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile
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Introduction to Disciplined Agile
Disciplined Agile Lifecycle
Disciplined Agile Company
Disciplined Agile Teams – Roles
Disciplined Agile teams at scale
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