New Disciplined Agile - Introduction

Many companies are exploring or have already implemented agile thinking and methodologies to improve product development, serve internal and external customers, make organisational processes more transparent, predictable and efficient, and achieve business agility in general.

Business agility is the ability of an organisation/company to adapt to changes in the market and the environment in a rapid, yet effective and cost-efficient manner. Business agility is focused on realised value. All areas of business have a role to play in achieving it, and therefore all parts of the organisation/company need to be aware of and apply agile thinking and methods/techniques.

It is a common experience that while the internal functioning of some departments, such as product development teams, can be converted to Scrum or Kanban relatively quickly, within six months or a year, the interaction between such teams and other departments, most of which are not agile, will not be seamless. Achieving the desired business agility is often facilitated by an external actor, the agile coach - or by a broad and flexible knowledge base and toolkit that is constantly evolving.

Disciplined Agile (DA) is this particular set of decision support tools: it helps people, teams and organisations to streamline their processes according to the current situation (context).

DA is the foundation of business agility. It shows how different functions work together, such as product development, IT operations, enterprise architecture, product portfolio management, finance, procurement. The DA describes the purpose of these functions, lists the options that can be used in their processes and gives the advantages/disadvantages of the options.

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), which is part of DA, is a people- and learning-centric, hybrid and agile approach to creating and delivering IT-based solutions. It uses a risk-value-based product development/delivery lifecycle, is goal-oriented, can be used in large enterprises, and can be scaled at tactical and strategic levels.

The Disciplined Agile - Introduction training is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the essential components and how to use "disciplined agile" to achieve business agility. It introduces the DA mindset, roles and responsibilities and team models, the different product development lifecycles, and the techniques and knowledge base for selecting and managing the way of working. It helps to build scalability at team and organisational level. Describes the levels of agile operations from product development teams through DevOps to customer value-focused value streams and the entire agile organization.

What the training will really help:

The knowledge gained from the training can be used to plan the agile transformation of a company/organization, better integrate teams already working in agile with the rest of the organization, and restart agile transitions that have stalled (or are not delivering the expected results). It is useful for corporate/organisational leaders responsible for agile transformation, as well as internal and external staff (agile coach, Scrum Master) who are operationally involved in the transformation.

Overview of Disciplide Agile (DA)

• Business Agility and the DA Toolkit
• Managed continuous improvement
• Mindset
• Roles and team models
• Processes

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

• DAD and Agile methodologies
• Roles
• Lifecycles
• Process Objectives
• Scalability
• DAD process sheets

Disciplined DevOps

• Principles
• BizDevOps, DevSecOps, DataDevOps, Coordination
• Disciplined DevOps Process Sheets

Value Streams

• Principles
• Disciplined Agile Flow for Enterprise Transformation (DA FLEX)
• Value Stream Flow Sheets

Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)

• DAE Flow Sheets

There are no specific prerequisites for completing the training, but experience in any agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) can be helpful.