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Webinar – “Disciplined Agile Delivery: Going Beyond Scrum” Join me as I introduce and moderate this presentation and discussion with Scott on 25th April at 12noon EST. Key topics will include:  1. What the Disciplined Agile Delivery ...read more

Mark will be speaking about “Disciplined Agile Delivery:  Going Beyond Scrum” at a St. Louis IBM Rational User Group event on April 11th.  Details are here… ...read more

Call for Papers: Cutter IT Journal Guest Editor: Scott Ambler Abstract deadline: 1 April 2013 Article deadline: 3 May 2013 Disciplined Agile Delivery in the Enterprise Recently there have been rumblings within the industry along the lines of “what’s ...read more

On Saturday, February 9 a group of people got together in Whistler British Columbia to discuss the importance of context as it pertains to software development.  The workshop was organized by the good folk at Software Development Experts (once again, ...read more

IBM has recently published updates to the DAD process template for IBM Rational Team Concert and their DAD process definition for IBM Rational Method Composer. ...read more

Enterprise awareness is one of the key aspects of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework.  The observation is that DAD teams work within your organization’s enterprise ecosystem, as do all other teams.  There are often existing systems currently ...read more

This has been a very active website in 2012.  Thank you all for your interest and participation.  We are looking forward to some great discussions again this year. Mark & Scott Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes ...read more

The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework suggests a robust set of roles for agile solution delivery.  These roles are overviewed in the following figure: Primary Roles Primary roles are commonly found regardless of the level of scale.  There are ...read more

I will be teaching a two-day Advanced DAD workshop in Zurich on April 8&9th.  The workshop is hands-on and is meant for intermediate-level people.  People new to agile can still attend of course but may find it a bit overwhelming.  I’m always ...read more

This post is a follow-up to Comparing DAD to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) – Part 1.  In that post I described in some detail why Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is not “Agile RUP”.  DAD is quite different in both approach and ...read more

Early in the lifecycle, during the Inception phase, disciplined agile teams will invest some time in initial requirements envisioning and initial architecture envisioning. One of the issues to be considered as part of requirements envisioning is to identify ...read more

Non-functional requirements, also known as quality of service (QoS) or technical requirements, are typically system-wide thus they apply to many, and sometimes all of your functional requirements.  Part of ensuring that your solution is potentially consumable ...read more

An important aspect Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is its explicit inclusion of an Inception phase where project initiation activities occur.  Although phase tends to be a swear word within the agile community, the reality is that the vast majority ...read more

Recently at the Scott W. Ambler + Associates site we received a series of questions from someone who wanted to better understand how architecture issues are addressed on agile project teams.  It seemed to me that the questions were sufficiently generic ...read more

Because Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) addresses the full delivery lifecycle it explicitly addresses the effort required to transition your solution into production, or in the case of product teams into the marketplace.  This transition effort may be ...read more

Last week I was discussing DAD with a new client and he asked me “Is DAD just an Agile version of RUP?”  In a word, no.  DAD is a framework composed of a hybrid of methods and practices as shown in the diagram.  It comprises the best of Scrum ...read more

InformIT is offering an Agile promo to coincide with Agile 2012 happening this week. This promo offers a discount of 35% on all Agile titles, including Disciplined Agile Delivery. ...read more

Whether you like it or not, as you adopt agile you will constrained by the organizational ecosystem, and you need to act accordingly.  It takes discipline to work with enterprise professionals such as enterprise architects, data administrators, portfolio ...read more

I was recently asked a question around the scope of the DAD lifecycle and thought that I would share my answer publicly. The focus of DAD is the delivery portion of the solution lifecycle, from initiation to delivery into production (or the marketplace ...read more

There are some differences as well as some similarities when comparing agile adoption to agile transformation.  Which does the DAD book address?  One or the other, or both?  I know that I have my opinion, but I am interested in yours.  Add your comments ...read more

I think that this blog has been quite successful in getting the word out about Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and describing key aspects of the framework in advance of the book being released.  However, now that the book is out, it makes sense to evolve ...read more

Despite some agilists reluctance to admit that projects go through phases the DAD process framework explicitly recognizes that they do.  Building serious solutions requires a lot more than just doing the cool construction stuff.  It takes discipline to ...read more

Being able to deliver potentially shippable software increments at the end of each iteration is a good start that clearly requires discipline.  The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework goes one step further and advises you to explicitly ...read more

Clearly mainstream agile practices such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) require discipline.  For example, effective Agile teams have the discipline to: Hold short, focused, and to the point daily coordination meetings rather than infrequent and ...read more

Yesterday Mark and I double teamed on a webcast overviewing DAD to a university class.  After the webcast we got the following question: I am wondering if it would make sense to entirely eliminate the word “phase” from DAD’s vocabulary ...read more