DA 301: Disciplined Agile Master Class
You have been working on agile projects; very often taking a Scrum or Kanban-based approach, and for the most part you’ve had positive experiences. But you’ve run into a few challenges along the way and you realize that surely others have already figured these things out. This is where the Disciplined Agile framework comes in. The DA framework is a hybrid agile approach, which combines strategies from a variety of sources – Scrum, SAFe, XP, Agile Modeling, Kanban, TOGAF, ITIL, and many others – and shows how they fit together in a pragmatic manner, which reflects the realities of enterprise environments. The Disciplined Agile provides coherent guidance for how to address many, if not all, of the challenges that organizations that are adopting agile strategies are struggling with.
Agenda
The agenda will be tailored to meet your needs. We begin with a brief overview of the fundamentals of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Disciplined DevOps, and Disciplined Agile IT. We call this the Disciplined Agile 2.0 framework. Then the remainder of the workshop is run like an agile project. As a group we run through a brainstorming session where workshop participants identify questions that they want to get answered about how to pragmatically apply agile strategies in the situations that they face. We then group the questions into topics. At that point we treat the topics as requirements for the workshop that we estimate, prioritize, and work through in an agile manner. This approach enables us to tailor a workshop that addresses your most pressing concerns.
Some questions that have been asked in previous workshops:
- How do architecture practices fit in?
- How can you remain agile when you need to give a fixed estimate up front?
- How do you work in an agile manner when the team isn’t co-located?
- How do you organize large agile teams?
- How do you manage requirements across many teams?
- How do you govern agile teams?
- How can data management and enterprise architecture teams work in an agile manner?
- How do we improve our testing strategies?
- How do we evolve from Scrum to continuous delivery?
- How do project managers/business analysts/quality professionals/… fit in?
Target Audience
- Experienced IT professionals wanting to adopt disciplined agile strategies
- Experienced agilists wanting to scale agile delivery strategies
- Senior IT managers wanting to learn how to scale agile across all of IT
Workshop Logistics
- Length: One days – 7 hours of classroom time plus breaks
- Approach: A brief introductory lecture followed by participant-driven discussions.
- Pre-requisites: Students are familiar with agile software development concepts.
- Classroom Requirements: For the students a table layout is preferred. Ideally there should be tables of 4-6 people with sufficient space between them so that students can easily move about.For the instructor a screen, projector, and writing space (whiteboards or flip charts).