Chapter 6

Making Process Decisions with Disciplined Agile Delivery

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Seeing how to deliver a product with DAD

check Looking at the DAD delivery lifecycles

check Reviewing common DAD roles

check Evaluating whether DAD is a good fit for your organization

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is the product delivery process of a larger framework called Disciplined Agile (DA). DA is a process decision framework, meaning it encourages you to make certain choices at different points in your product delivery, but does not prescribe any specific process to follow to make your organization agile. Instead of prescribing a process, DA offers guidance in the following ways:

  • It describes how various activities of product delivery such as analysis, design, testing, architecture, management, and programming work together as a whole.
  • It stipulates what each of these activities should address.
  • It offers options for conducting each activity and describes the pros and cons of each option.

For example, DA may look at a certain activity and say, “Here are the goals for that activity, and here are a few approaches ...

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