Provides a foundation for enterprise agility, value streams, and a disciplined approach to DevOps. The book offers an application of agile, lean, and traditional techniques for your enterprise-class environment, and overviews a strategy for teams to evolve a fit-for-purpose, flexible WoW that supports consistent governance strategy.
How does a small development team in an established enterprise apply Disciplined Agile strategies to successfully improve their agility and provide real valueto their stakeholders? This guide to Disciplined Agile Delivery provides the foundation from which to scale agile and lean software development strategies.
The authoritative guide to DAD, IBM's disciplined approach to applying agile practices in enterprise scale projects. Integrate enterprise discipline with powerful, widely-used agile practices into a proven solution for the entire software lifecycle. Scale agile strategies for complex development challenges, without compromising agile's advantages.
Provides a foundation for enterprise agility, value streams, and a disciplined approach to DevOps, offering a pragmatic application of agile, lean, and traditional techniques for your enterprise-class environment. The book also overviews a strategy for teams to evolve a fit-for-purpose, flexible WoW.
A Small Agile Team's Journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps
The second edition of this book offers a concise overview of agile software development, focusing on Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), the first level of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework. Through a case study, it illustrates a typical agile team's journey in adopting a DA approach while developing a mission-critical application within a legacy enterprise environment. The narrative spans from team initiation to deployment, detailing the team's experiences and process improvements as they transition from Scrum to a lean continuous delivery model aligned with their organization's DevOps strategy. DAD integrates various methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming, providing a flexible framework that addresses gaps in mainstream agile practices. Each chapter covers key aspects, starting with an introduction to the book and the history of DAD, followed by a discussion of common myths. The case study introduces the team and their initial planning efforts, leading into detailed accounts of construction iterations and the transition phase, which culminates in production deployment. The final chapters outline the team's evolution toward a Disciplined DevOps strategy and available resources. This 111-page book is designed to be a quick, informative read, with significant updates in the rewritten chapters reflecting the latest developments in DAD.
Winning the Race to Business Agility
The agile community has discovered how to build and continuously enhance high-performance software development teams, akin to creating a race car engine and evolving it for better power and efficiency. Unfortunately, these exceptional engines are often placed in organizational structures that hinder their potential, leading to frustration. The solution lies in integrating these development teams into a DevOps ecosystem, supported by an effective IT organization, within a framework that can leverage IT for profitability. This book focuses on transitioning from optimizing team performance to enhancing the entire enterprise. Achieving business agility—characterized by adaptability, lean practices, responsiveness, and a culture of learning—is essential for modern enterprises. However, there is no quick fix; it requires a multi-year commitment to hard work, experimentation, and a dedication to continuous improvement. The Disciplined Agile toolkit mitigates risks and accelerates the journey toward business agility, uniquely providing a cohesive roadmap for transformation. The book outlines the challenges organizations face and introduces seven principles foundational to Disciplined Agile. It covers Disciplined Agile Delivery, Disciplined DevOps, and Disciplined Agile IT, culminating in what it means to be a Disciplined Agile Enterprise. Finally, it presents a plan for initiating an Agile transformation and evolving into a strategy