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In this posting I explore the goal-driven aspect of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process decision framework.   This goal-driven approach enables DAD to avoid being prescriptive and thereby be more flexible and easier to scale than other agile ...read more

Governance establishes chains of responsibil­ity, authority and communication in support of the overall enterprise’s goals and strategy. It also establishes measurements, policies, standards and control mechanisms to enable people to carry out their roles ...read more

Last week I was in Moscow to do a workshop on DAD.  Askhat Urazbaev, known for starting the first Agile User Group in Russia attended.  He asked some good questions, including “Why is it called the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework?  Are you ...read more

The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework includes an explicit Inception phase – sometimes called a project initiation phase, startup phase, or iteration/sprint zero – which is conducted before actually starting to build a solution.  The ...read more

The DAD process framework uses a goal-driven approach as we illustrate in the figure below.  Throughout our book we  described each of the DAD phases in turn and suggested strategies for addressing the goals of that phase. For each goal we described the ...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

Techniques that shorten the time between doing something and getting feedback about it are generally lower risk and result in lower cost to address any changes than techniques with longer feedback cycles.  Many of these techniques require agile team members ...read more