Disciplined Agile Blog

What Happens When People Don’t Agree?

Agile Transformation — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:39:33 GMT

I was recently asked the question “What happens when the Product Owner and the Architecture Owner don’t agree?” and realized this is an issue for everyone on DAD teams in general. Here’s my advice: Talk it out. People aren’t...(read more)

Webinar – “Disciplined Agile Delivery: Going Beyond Scrum”

Agile Transformation — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:48:59 GMT

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)

DAD Instructor Certification in London

Agile Transformation — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:45:30 GMT

Mark will be running a DAD Instructor Certification workshop for business partners and consultants in London May 15-17th. You can find more information here… ...read more...(read more)

Mark doing DAD talk at St. Louis IBM Rational User Group

Agile Transformation — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:46:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Agile Transformation — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:46:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Call For Papers: Disciplined Agile Delivery for the Enterprise – Cutter IT Journal June 2013

Agile Transformation — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:08:48 GMT

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)

Scaling Agile: The Software Development Context Framework

Agile Transformation — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:14:10 GMT

The Software Development Context Framework (SDCF) defines how to select and tailor a situation-dependent strategy for software development. The SDCF is used to provide context for organizing your people, process, and tools for a software-based solution...(read more)

Disciplined Agile Certification Launches Today

Agile Transformation — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:18:28 GMT

The Disciplined Agile Consortium is proud to announce the launch of our certification programme for practitioners of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAC is offering three practitioner certifications: Disciplined Agile Yellow Belt. This beginner certification...(read more)

Scaling Agile: Start With a Disciplined Foundation

Agile Transformation — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:05:34 GMT

One of the claims that we make in the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) book is that DAD provides a solid foundation from which to scale agile. In this blog posting I thought I would expand upon that idea. Figure 1 overviews the basic strategy that I...(read more)

Contextualization of Software Development Workshop

Agile Transformation — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:59:30 GMT

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 Rational Updates DAD Process Offerings

Agile Transformation — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:38:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Disciplined Agilists are Enterprise Aware

Agile Transformation — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:26:17 GMT

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)

Disciplined Agile Experience workshop in Washington DC in March

Agile Transformation — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:18:59 GMT

Scott Ambler and Michael Vizdos are conducting our DA101: Disciplined Agile Experience workshop in Washington DC in March. Early bird and group discounts are available. Attendees will receive White Belt certification. You can register here… .....(read more)

Disciplined Agilists Take a Goal-Driven Approach

Agile Transformation — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:51:30 GMT

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)

Mark interviewed on DAD

Agile Transformation — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:09:09 GMT

Mark was interviewed on DAD at the IBM Innovate conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lkDBs1Gf4TA ...read more...(read more)