The Disciplined Agile toolkit provides guidance for organizations to streamline processes in a context-sensitive way. It describes lightweight principles and practices for agile delivery, DevOps, IT, and enterprise strategies. The toolkit is hybrid, pragmatic, and allows customizing methods like Scrum and SAFe. Key principles include customer focus, pragmatism over purism, providing options, and optimizing flow. The Disciplined Agile Consortium supports evolving the toolkit through resources like certification programs and discussion forums.

1. Presenter: Saurabh Parikh
Source: https://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/
https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile

2. Agenda
 The Disciplined Agile Toolkit
 Why Disciplined Agile
 DA manifesto
 Principles of DA
 Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
 Disciplined DevOps
 Disciplined IT (DAIT)
 Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
 Summary

3. The Disciplined Agile Toolkit
The Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision toolkit describes light-
weight guidance to help organizations streamline their information
technology (IT) and business processes in a context-sensitive manner.
Comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides
straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams
and enterprises choose their “way of working” in a context-specific
way.
Key principles of DA include customer centricity, being pragmatic
rather than purist, providing a range of agile and lean options,
applying context-based practices, and optimizing flow across the
entire enterprise.
Applying the DA toolkit allows organizations to customize any
method or framework – such as traditional, Scrum, or SAFe – to drive
outcomes that differentiate them from their competitors.
In nutshell: The DA toolkit provides the process foundation for
business agility.

4. The Disciplined Agile HYBRID Toolkit

5. Why Disciplined Agile
 DA is agnostic and pragmatic
 Context Counts
 Become more effective
 Distinguish yourself from other agile practitioners
 DAD addresses full agile processes
 Team can move out of method prison
 Optimize the workflow

6. Why Disciplined Agile (DA)?
1. DA takes the mystery out of agile software development
2. DA speeds up your agile transformation
3. DA enables context-sensitive process choices
4. DA extends Scrum
5. DA provides a foundation to make SAFe work
6. DA provides a foundation from which to scale agile
tactically
7. DA shows how to scale strategically to IT
8. DA is enterprise ready
9. DA evolves empirically
10. DA is pragmatic, not purist
11. DA increases the chance of success of your agile
transformation
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7. Agnostic Hybrid
DISCIPLINED AGILE IS AN AGNOSTIC HYBRID THAT LEVERAGES STRATEGIES
FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES
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Scrum
Extreme Programming
LeanKanban
Unified Process Agile Modeling
Agile Data“Traditional”PMIBok Guide®
DevOps …and moreSAFe®

8. Disciplined Agile Manifesto
 Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
 Consumable solutions over comprehensive
documentation
 Stakeholder collaboration over contract negotiation
 Responding to feedback over following a plan
 Transparency over (false) predictability

9. The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile
Delight
Customers
Pragmatism
Be
Awesome
Context
Counts
Choice is
Good
Optimize
Flow
Enterprise
Awareness

10. Disciplined
Agile Enterprise
Disciplined
Agile IT
Disciplined
DevOps
DAD
The Disciplined
Agile Toolkit

11. Disciplined Agile
Delivery (DAD)
The key characteristics of DAD:
 People-first
 Goal-driven
 Hybrid agile
 Learning-oriented
 Full delivery lifecycle
 Solution focused
 Risk-value lifecycle
 Enterprise aware
Foundation of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit

12. Workflow of Disciplined DevOps

13. Workflow of Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)

14. The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
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.

15. The Disciplined Agile Toolkit
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 Your team interacts with others,
and they need to become agile
too!
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Finance
Marketing
Procurement
Enterprise
Architecture
People
Management
Strategy
IT Operations
Security
And many
more…

17. Disciplined Agile
Career & Growth
Path
Executive
DA Instructor Trainer (DAIT) DA Program
Consultant (DAPC)
Specializations
DA Financial Specialist DA
Marketing Specialist DA
Product Owner…
AssociateCertified Disciplined Agilist (CDA)
Scaling
Team
Leadership
Team
Members
EntryLevelDisciplined Agilist (DA)
Master
DA Program Manager (DAPM) Certified DA
Instructor (CDAI) Certified DA Coach (CDAC)
DA Lean Manager (DALM)
DA Lean Scrum Master (DALSM)
DA Lean Project Manager (DALPM) Certified DA
Practitioner (CDAP) Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-
ACP)
Professional

18. Summary
 Disciplined Agile is process-decision toolkit and not a framework.
The whole objective is “Business Agility”
 Certification in Disciplined Agile equips you to be framework
agnostic and enables you to showcase your prowess in DA
 As a goal-driven method, DA provides a solid foundation for
business agility so people, teams, and organizations can all
benefit from straightforward guidance to streamline their
processes.
 You can leverage DA for scaling up (both tactically and
strategically)
 Being domain agnostic, DA provides sufficient guidance to the
professionals in the respective domains

19. References
 https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile
 https://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/

20. The Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC) supports and evolves the
Disciplined Agile process decision toolkit.
The DAC site, DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org, provides information on
curriculum and learning resources for Disciplined Agile practitioners. It
is also the home of the Disciplined Agile certification program.
The Disciplined Agile blog, DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com, provides a
wealth of articles and blog postings about Disciplined Agile topics.
The Disciplined Agile discussion forum, LinkedIn.com/groups/4685263, is
a meeting place for Disciplined Agile practitioners to share their
experiences and to get questions answered.
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