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The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile Disciplined Agile Delivery The Seven Principles of Disciplined Agile What does it mean to be disciplined? To be disciplined is to do the things that you know are good for you, things that usually require hard work and perseverance. It requires discipline to regularly delight your customers. It takes discipline for teams to become awesome. It requires discipline for leaders to ensure that their people have a safe environment to work in. It takes discipline to recognize that you need to tailor your approach for the context that you face, and to evolve your approach as the situation evolves. It takes discipline to recognize that you are part of a larger organization, that you should do what’s best for the enterprise and not just what’s convenient for you. It requires discipline to evolve and optimize your overall workflow, and it requires discipline to realize that you have many choices regarding how you work and organize yourselves, so you should choose accordingly. For details, visit http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Delight Customers We delight our customers when our products and services not only fulfill their needs and expectations but surpass them Supporting strategies: Build with the customer in mind Reduce the feedback cycle Active stakeholder participation Embrace change Take an experimentation/hypothesis driven approach We delight our customers when our products and services not only fulfill their needs and expectations but surpass them. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/delight-customers/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Be Awesome Awesome teams are built around motivated individuals who are given the environment and support required to fulfill their objectives Supporting strategies for individuals: Respect others Be trustworthy Willingly collaborate with others Be an active learner Master your craft Become a generalizing specialist Be quality driven Supporting strategies for leaders: Enable psychological safety Build whole teams Provide people with autonomy and opportunities to grow Awesome teams are built around motivated individuals who are given the environment and support required to fulfill their objectives. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/be-awesome/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Pragmatism Let’s be as effective as we can be, and that may mean we go beyond being just agile/lean Supporting strategies: Look beyond agile and lean Respect others Take a context-sensitive approach Be prepared to experiment Let’s be as effective as we can be, and that may mean we go beyond being just agile. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/pragmatism/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Context Counts Every person, every team, and every organization is unique.  Let’s find and evolve an effective strategy given the situation we actually face Supporting strategies: Observe your environment Be prepared to experiment Be prepared to evolve as the situation evolves Teams should own their process Leadership should support varying processes Every person, every team, and every organization is unique.  Let’s find and evolve an effective strategy given the situation we actually face. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/context-counts/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Choice is Good Different contexts require different strategies. Teams need to be able to own their own process and to experiment to discover what works in practice for them given the situation that they face. Having process options to choose from, and understanding the trade-offs of those options, enables you to home in on better options sooner Supporting strategies: Multiple lifecycle support Goal-driven strategy Recognize that context counts Be prepared to experiment Recognize that others have solved similar challenges Adopt a fail/learn fast mindset Different contexts require different strategies. Teams need to be able to own their own process and to experiment to discover what works in practice for them given the situation that they face. Having process options to choose from, and understanding the trade-offs of those options, enables you to home in on better options sooner. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/choice-is-good/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Optimize Flow Your organization is a complex adaptive system (CAS) of interacting teams and groups that evolve continuously and affect each other as they do. To succeed you must ensure that these teams are well aligned, remained well aligned, and better yet improve their alignment over time Supporting strategies: Deliver continuously at a sustainable pace Be enterprise aware (optimize the whole) Eliminate waste Improve continuously Experiment to learn Measure what counts Prefer long-lived stable teams Your organization is a complex adaptive system (CAS) of interacting teams and groups that individually evolve continuously and affect each other as they do. To succeed you must ensure that these teams are well aligned, remained well aligned, and better yet improve their alignment over time. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/principles/optimize-flow/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

Disciplined Agile Delivery Enterprise Awareness When people are enterprise aware they are motivated to consider the overall needs of their organization, to ensure that what they’re doing contributes positively to the goals of the organization and not just to the sub-optimal goals of their team Supporting strategies: Work closely with enterprise professionals Adopt, follow, and evolve enterprise guidance Leverage enterprise assets Pay down technical debt Share your learnings Adopt appropriate governance strategies Work transparently When people are enterprise aware they are motivated to consider the overall needs of their organization, to ensure that what they’re doing contributes positively to the goals of the organization and not just to the sub-optimal goals of their team. For more details, see http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/enterpriseawareness/ © Disciplined Agile Consortium © Scott Ambler + Associates

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