About Disciplined Agile (DA)

Disciplined Agile (DA) is a process-decision toolkit that offers clear guidance to help individuals, teams, and organizations streamline their processes in a way that is sensitive to their unique context.

DA lays a strong foundation for business agility by illustrating how various activities—such as Solution Delivery (software development), IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Security, Finance, Vendor Management, and more—work together effectively. It also highlights what these activities should focus on, offers a variety of approaches to address them, and outlines the trade-offs involved with each option.

The Disciplined Agile (DA) Mindset serves several purposes, with each aspect playing a crucial role:

• Principles: These form the philosophical foundation for business agility, drawing from lean and flow concepts.
• Promises: These are agreements made with teammates, stakeholders, and others within the organization, defining a set of disciplined behaviors that foster effective and professional collaboration.
• Guidelines: These provide advice to enhance our way of working (WoW) and support continuous improvement in how we work over time.

What You Will Learn from DASM

• The fundamentals of Agile and Lean, and how to apply both approaches to create value for your teams.
• A variety of Agile and Lean techniques from methods like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, and more.
• How to effectively implement these techniques in practice for successful project outcomes.
• An understanding of the Disciplined Agile mindset, including principles such as pragmatism, the power of choice, and adapting to context.
• How to utilize the Disciplined Agile toolkit to find the most effective way of working for each unique situation.

Course Outline