An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile: Business Agility for Established Enterprises

An Executives Guide to Disciplined Agile: Business Agility for Established Enterprises

Scott W. Ambler Senior Consulting Partner

scott [at] scottambler.com

@scottwambler

Agenda

•  The racing metaphor •  We need business agility •  Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) •  Disciplined DevOps •  Disciplined IT (DAIT) •  Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE) •  Parting thoughts

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The Story I’m About to Tell


Agile software teams are building awesome race car engines…


…but they are surrounded by organizational tractors


To win the race we need to build a high performing race car…


…supported by an effective team to race it…


…and an organization that can leverage it to serve customers


Disciplined Agile Enterprise

Disciplined Agile IT

Disciplined DevOps

DAD

The Disciplined Agile Framework


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Why We Need Business Agility

Every business is a software business

Every industry is being disrupted

Agile firms dominate

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The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile

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DelightCustomers

Pragmatism

BeAwesome

ContextCounts

ChoiceisGood

OptimizeFlow

EnterpriseAwareness

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)


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Agile

Lean

Continuous Delivery: Agile

Continuous Delivery: Lean

Exploratory

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Supports Several Lifecycles

Agile and Lean Teams Learn and Improve



Governance is Built Into DAD

•  Governance strategies built into DAD: –  Risk-value lifecycle –  Light-weight milestone reviews –  “Standard” opportunities for increased visibility and to steer the team

provided by agile –  Enterprise awareness –  Robust stakeholder definition

Full Lifecycle


Shift Left, Shift Right, … It’s Really Continuous

•  You may have heard: –  In agile, we shift testing left in the lifecycle

•  What we mean: –  Testing is so important, we do it from the very beginning

•  Everything else is shifted too: –  Modeling and planning are so important we shift them

right –  Development is so important we shift it left –  And so on

•  The reality is that everything is continuous: –  Activities such as planning, testing, coding, modeling, and

more are so important we do them continuously throughout the lifecycle, usually on a daily basis


Shift

Shift

The Process Goals of Disciplined Agile Delivery


DAD is Goal-Driven, Not Prescriptive

Goal: Secure Funding



Goal: Address Changing Stakeholder needs


Goal: Produce a Potentially Consumable Solution


Scaling Agile Tactically

Disciplined DevOps


Conventional DevOps

But this is missing several important issues: –  Only teams doing Continuous Delivery can do DevOps? Really? –  Security – DevSecOps???? –  The business – BizDevOps???? –  Data management – DevDataOps???? –  Explicit Release Management (for large organizations) –  Explicit Support (for large organizations)



Disciplined DevOps



Disciplined Agile IT Department (DAIT) Workflow


The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DA 3.0)

A Disciplined Agile Enterprise is able to anticipate and respond swiftly to changes in the marketplace. It does this through an organizational culture and structure that facilitates change within the context of the situation that it faces. Such organizations require a learning mindset in the mainstream business and

underlying lean and agile processes to drive innovation.





The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile

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DelightCustomers

Pragmatism

BeAwesome

ContextCounts

ChoiceisGood

OptimizeFlow

EnterpriseAwareness

Disciplined Agile Enterprise


Disciplined DevOps

DAD



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