THE DISCIPLINED AGILE

(DA) TOOLKIT
An Agile/Lean Toolkit for optimizing your Way of
Working (WoW)
Mark Lines
Vice President, Disciplined Agile
Project Management Institute
Twitter @mark_lines

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AGENDA
1. What is Disciplined Agile?
2. How can Disciplined Agile help?
3. Disciplined Agile Delivery
4. Producing Business Value
5. Moving Forward

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 What is

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 2020
DA v5
2019 FLEX
PMI integrated into
2017 purchases Disciplined
DA v4 DA Agile
2015 Disciplined
DA v3 Agile
2014 Disciplined Enterprise
DA v2 Agile IT (DAE)
2009-2012 Disciplined
DevOps
IBM
Disciplined Agile
Delivery (DAD)

A timeline of Disciplined Agile

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Disciplined DA is a tool kit that provides
Agile (DA) straightforward guidance that enables
us to make better decisions inside our
organizations about our Way of
Working (WoW).

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DEFINITION
 DISCIPLINED AGILE

Generalizing specialists
Regression testing Automated tests MVPs DA is an umbrella over all of agile,
Taskboards Active stakeholder participation
GQM
Onsite customer Mob programming
Acceptance Tests It makes the Agile landscape clear.
User stories
Guilds Static analysis It helps you choose when to use
Scrum User Experience
Dashboards
Continuous Integration
Daily standups
what.
Squads Backlogs
Split testing Dynamic analysis Net Promoter Score (NPS)
MBIs
BDD Demos
Pair programming Database refactoring
Test driven development (TDD)
Technical Debt OKRs
Exploratory testingDevOps
Your WoW
Epics Canary testing Shift left
Burndowns Continuous Deployment Tribes
Shift right Open space
Product Owners Design Release Planning
Program Increments (PIs) Refactoring Business canvas DA enables teams to choose
ATDD
Architecture Owners Burnups
Spikes
their Way of Working (WoW)TM

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 DA Mindset

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 DA Mindset

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 DA Mindset

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 DA Mindset

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The Scope of
Disciplined
Agile

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 How can
Disciplined Agile
help me?

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 #1 With the DA toolkit,
you can better optimize
your agile teams

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Agile methods and frameworks
give you a fish and feed you for
a day.

The Disciplined Agile (DA)

toolkit teaches you how to fish
and thus feeds you for life.

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 #2 The DA toolkit also enables you
to extend agility beyond teams
to the entire organization

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 #3 Finally, the DA toolkit lets
you accelerate value delivery
in scaled agile situations

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“It’s not just a technology thing.”
Barclays Banks on Disciplined Agile
After considering agile scaling frameworks including
SAFe and LeSS, Barclays enlisted Disciplined Agile to
help scale its agile transformation across thousands of Barclays plc is a 325-year
teams, multiple business lines, and many different old global bank and financial
services company with over
combinations of product. 83,000 employees and
£21.7B in revenue (2019).
Results

Throughput Code Complexity Test Code Coverage

300% increase in avg. 50% drop in code 50% increase in test code
stories per month per complexity on average coverage, leading to lower levels
app. across 80+ applications of production incidents per app

Benefits of Agile Transformation at Barclays, Ben Linders, Sep 08, 2016

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 What is
Disciplined
Agile Delivery
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Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

DAD teams:
• Build consumable solutions, not just working software
• Consumable = working + usable + desirable
• Solution = Software + hardware + documentation + updated
workflow + updated organization
• Choose their way of working (WoW) – Every team is unique
• Are a key aspect of your overall DevOps strategy

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Teams should
choose a life
cycle appropriate
for the context. Agile Lean Exploratory

Continuous Continuous Program

Delivery: Agile Delivery: Lean

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Agile life cycle
Extending Scrum to the enterprise

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Lean life cycle
Extending Kanban to the enterprise

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Continuous Delivery: Lean life cycle

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Lean Governance
Baked into Disciplined Agile

Inception Construction Transition

Initiate the endeavor Development of a potentially consumable solution Deploy the solution
Stakeholder vision Sufficient functionality
Continued viability Production ready
Proven architecture (several)
Delighted stakeholders

Milestone Fundamental Question Asked

Stakeholder vision Do stakeholders agree with your strategy?
Proven architecture Can you actually build this?
Continued viability Does the effort still make sense?
Sufficient functionality Does it make sense to release the current solution?
Production ready Will the solution work in production?
Delighted stakeholders Are stakeholders happy with the deployed solution?

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The process goals for team agility

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 Producing
Business
Value

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Success doesn’t come from adopting a Successful
prescriptive framework or methodology such as
Scrum or SAFe® although it may be a good start!
agile
organizations
For true business agility, we need to choose our
agile WoW™, bespoke agile, optimizing for our
take
unique situations. responsibility
for evolving
their own
agility.

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If we get better at this, Identify problem
we succeed more often,
and we improve faster. Some experiments fail. You
learn something, but it
Identify potential doesn’t get you closer to
We can do this if we technique(s)
your goal.
have access to an
experienced agile Failing fast is fine, but how
coach; but they can Try the technique(s) can we succeed earlier?
be expensive and
hard to find.
Assess
We can do this if we effectiveness
have access to a process Guided
knowledge base, such as Continuous
the Disciplined Agile Abandon what
tool kit.
Adopt what works
doesn’t work Improvement

Share learnings
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 Guided
Continuous
Improvement
Improve faster
through Continuous

Effectiveness
Improvement
Guided
Continuous
Adopting a
Improvement framework

Time

Start where you are.

Do the best that you can in the situation that you face.
Always strive to get better.
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 Moving Forward

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Business
Agility
Disciplined Agile
across the
enterprise

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The DA FLEX life cycle

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• DA FLEX Playbook for SAFe
• DA Transformation Playbook
• Updated certification program

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 In summary
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 Success doesn’t
come from adopting For true business
a prescriptive agility, we need to
framework or choose our own agile
methodology such way of working
as Scrum or SAFe, optimizing for our
although it may be unique situation.
a good start.

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 Disciplined Agile DA brings a
is a rich, disciplined,
comprehensive agnostic,
and well-organized professional,
toolkit of strategies enterprise approach
to help your to agile which is
organization be what our industry
more successful has been lacking in
with agile. the past.

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 Understanding
what your options
are, and which
ones work in
different contexts
leads to better
decisions.

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Basics of Disciplined Agile online course
• An eight-module, self-paced and scenario-based introduction to how
Disciplined Agile works. Learning
• See PMI.org/da-basics.
more about
Instructor-led workshops
Disciplined
Find them at DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org/DA-Training.
•
Agile
Books
• PMI members can download the Choose Your WoW book from
PMI.org/disciplined-agile/books/dad-handbook

Websites
• DA “micro site”: PMI.org/disciplined-agile
• DA blog: ProjectManagement.com/blogs/611075/Disciplined-Agile
• DA Applied blog: ProjectManagement.com/blogs/578692/Disciplined-Agile-
Applied
• Manifesting Business Agility blog:
ProjectManagement.com/blogs/581099/Manifesting-Business-Agility
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THANK YOU
Mark Lines
VP, Project Management Institute
& Co-creator, Disciplined Agile

Twitter: @mark_lines

For more information:

www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile

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