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

1. An Executives Guide to Disciplined Agile: Business Agility for Established Enterprises Scott W. Ambler Senior Consulting Partner scott [at] scottambler.com @scottwambler

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

3. The Story I’m About to Tell © Disciplined Agile Consortium

4. Agile software teams are building awesome race car engines… © Disciplined Agile Consortium

5. …but they are surrounded by organizational tractors © Disciplined Agile Consortium

6. To win the race we need to build a high performing race car… © Disciplined Agile Consortium

7. …supported by an effective team to race it… © Disciplined Agile Consortium

8. …and an organization that can leverage it to serve customers © Disciplined Agile Consortium

9. Disciplined Agile Enterprise Disciplined Agile IT Disciplined DevOps DAD The Disciplined Agile Framework © Disciplined Agile Consortium http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/the-agile-tractor-engine-analogy/ 9

10. Why We Need Business Agility Every business is a software business Every industry is being disrupted Agile firms dominate © Scott Ambler + Associates 10

11. The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile © Disciplined Agile Consortium 2013 11 Delight Customers Pragmatism Be Awesome Context Counts Choice is Good Optimize Flow Enterprise Awareness

12. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) © Disciplined Agile Consortium

13. © Disciplined Agile Consortium 13 Agile Lean Continuous Delivery: Agile Continuous Delivery: Lean Exploratory Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Supports Several Lifecycles

14. Agile and Lean Teams Learn and Improve © Disciplined Agile Consortium

15. © Disciplined Agile Consortium 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

16. Full Lifecycle © Disciplined Agile Consortium

17. 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 © Disciplined Agile Consortium Shift Shift

18. The Process Goals of Disciplined Agile Delivery © Disciplined Agile Consortium DAD is Goal-Driven, Not Prescriptive

19. Goal: Secure Funding © Disciplined Agile Consortium

20. © Disciplined Agile Consortium 20 Goal: Address Changing Stakeholder needs

21. © Disciplined Agile Consortium Goal: Produce a Potentially Consumable Solution

22. © Disciplined Agile Consortium 22 Scaling Agile Tactically

23. Disciplined DevOps © Disciplined Agile Consortium

24. 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 Agile Consortium

28. 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. © Disciplined Agile Consortium

31. The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile © Disciplined Agile Consortium 2013 31 Delight Customers Pragmatism Be Awesome Context Counts Choice is Good Optimize Flow Enterprise Awareness

32. Disciplined Agile Enterprise Disciplined Agile IT Disciplined DevOps DAD The Disciplined Agile Framework © Disciplined Agile Consortium http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/the-agile-tractor-engine-analogy/ 32

33. Thank You! Scott [at] scottambler.com @scottwambler DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com ScottAmbler.com Disciplined Agile Delivery © Disciplined Agile Consortium

34. Got Discipline? DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com ScottAmbler.com © Disciplined Agile Consortium

35. Scott Ambler + Associates is the thought leader behind the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework and its application. We are an IT management consulting firm that advises organizations to be more effective applying disciplined agile and lean processes within the context of your business. Our website is ScottAmbler.com We can help © Disciplined Agile Consortium

36. Join the DA Community! Anyone who attends a Disciplined Agile presentation or workshop is entitled to sign up at DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org to register for the designation “Disciplined Agilist” Seriously though, the DA designation is an important first step towards earning an actual DA certification, such as: More importantly, it gives you access to our “members only” information and webinars at DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org © Disciplined Agile Consortium