Disciplined Agile Experience Workshop

Foundations

Disciplined Agile (DA)

A process-decision toolkit that helps teams choose their way of working based on context, rather than prescribing one method.

Choose Your WoW

The central DA idea that teams deliberately select and evolve their way of working to fit their situation.

Context Counts

The right practices depend on factors like team size, distribution, and complexity; DA offers options for each.

Toolkit, Not Framework

DA provides guidance and choices rather than a fixed set of prescribed practices.

Pragmatism over Purism

DA favors what works in context, blending practices from Scrum, Kanban, XP, and more.

Mindset

DA Mindset

Principles, promises, and guidelines — such as delight customers, be awesome, and optimize flow — that underpin disciplined agile.

Principles

DA principles include delight customers, be pragmatic, choice is good, optimize flow, and enterprise awareness.

Promises

Commitments team members make to each other, such as creating psychological safety and improving continuously.

Guidelines

Practical guidance such as validating learning, applying design thinking, and organizing around products/services.

Guided Continuous Improvement

Improving your WoW by experimenting with options DA suggests, measuring results, and adopting what works.

Lifecycles

DA Lifecycles

DA supports several delivery lifecycles — Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery, Exploratory, and Program — so teams choose the best fit.

Agile Lifecycle

A Scrum-based, iteration-driven lifecycle for teams that benefit from cadence and ceremonies.

Lean Lifecycle

A Kanban-based, flow-driven lifecycle that limits WIP and pulls work continuously.

Continuous Delivery Lifecycle

A lifecycle releasing functionality frequently, supported by strong automation.

Exploratory Lifecycle

A Lean Startup lifecycle for high uncertainty, using experiments to discover what customers need.

Process Goals

Process Goals

DA organizes decisions around outcome-oriented goals, each with options and trade-offs, rather than prescriptive practices.

Goal Diagrams

Visual guides showing the decision points and options for each process goal.

Inception, Construction, Transition

The phases of a DA delivery lifecycle, from lightweight start-up through building to release.

Roles

DA Roles

Primary roles include Team Lead, Product Owner, Architecture Owner, Team Member, and Stakeholder.

Architecture Owner

The role guiding architectural decisions and technical direction, balancing intentional and emergent design.

Applying It

Tailoring Your WoW

Choosing practices for each process goal to fit context and evolving them as the team matures.

Enterprise Awareness

Acting in the best interest of the whole organization, leveraging and improving enterprise assets.

Consumable Solution

DA's focus on delivering solutions that are genuinely usable and valuable, not just potentially shippable.

Experiencing DA

Learning DA by applying its choices to real situations in the workshop, building practical decision-making skill.