Using The Disciplined Agile Toolkit To Choose Your: Mark Lines Co-Founder, Disciplined Agile Project Management Institute

USING THE
DISCIPLINED AGILE
TOOLKIT TO
CHOOSE YOUR WoW™
Mark Lines
Co-founder, Disciplined Agile
Project Management Institute
Copyright 2020 Project Management Institute

What is
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Disciplined Agile (DA)
is a toolkit that enables us
to make better decisions
inside our organizations
With the DA toolkit,
you can better optimize
your agile teams
The DA toolkit also enables you
to extend agility beyond teams
to the entire organization
Finally, the DA toolkit lets
you accelerate value delivery
in scaled agile situations
A closer look at Disciplined Agile
Explaining DA from four different views
Roles & responsibilities, team structures
People
MINDSET
Lifecycles Flow Practices Goal diagrams
PRINCIPLES
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People
MINDSET
PRINCIPLES
agile/iterative continuous delivery agile team of teams
BUILD
LEARN MEASURE
lean/continuous flow continuous delivery lean lean startup
People
MINDSET
Product Owner
Team Lead
Stakeholder
Architecture
Team Member Owner
People
MINDSET
Collaborative
Stakeholder driven
Vision Strategy Sponsor driven
Team driven
Expected outcomes
Business canvas
Capture the Vision Vision statement
Business case
Project/team charter
Lightweight
Level of Detail of Vision Detailed
Develop Common Vision
General agreement
Level of Agreement
Consensus
for the Vision Dictated
Statement of intent
Formal agreement – lightweight
Formality of Vision Formal agreement – detailed
Contract
Kickoff meeting
Information radiators
Communicate the Vision Milestone review
Review/walkthrough
Documentation
All of this gets us
ready for choosing
and evolving our
way of working (WoW)
But why is it important
to choose our own WoW?
Every team is unique and
faces a unique situation
We are constantly learning
Looking inwardly
The other teams
we collaborate with
are evolving
Looking outwardly
Our environment
(internally and externally)
is constantly evolving
Finally, sticking to a
prescriptive, non-evolving
way of working leads
to stagnation and
limited benefits
Effectiveness
Agile methods: 7-12% more productive on average
Agile scaling frameworks: 3-5% more productive on average
We hit the limits of the (prescriptive) framework
Time
Things get better

Source: Reifer, D.
Quantitative Analysis of Agile Methods Survey (2017):
Initial learning curve Twelve Major Findings
1500+ Agile teams at 150 organizations
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How do we do better?
If we get better at this, Identify Problem
we succeed more often
and we improve faster. Some experiments fail.
You learn something, but
Identify Potential
Solution(s)
it doesn’t get you closer
We can do this if we
to your goal.
have access to an
experienced agile
coach, but they can Failing fast is fine but how
be expensive and Try the Solution(s) do we succeed earlier?
hard to find.
Assess
We can do this if we
have access to a process
Effectiveness
Guided
Continuous
knowledgebase, like
the Disciplined Agile
Abandon What
Improvement
(DA) toolkit. Adopt What Works 35
Doesn’t Work
Share Learnings
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Guided Continuous
Improvement Improvement
Continuous
Improvement
Adopting a Prescriptive
Method/Framew ork
Time
Start where you are, 36
do the best that you can in the situation that you face,
and always strive to get better.
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In summary
Success doesn’t
come from adopting For true business
a prescriptive agility, we need to
framework or choose our own agile
methodology such way of working
as Scrum or SAFe, optimizing for our
although it may be unique situation.
a good start.
Disciplined Agile DA brings a
is a rich, disciplined,
comprehensive agnostic,
and well-organized professional,
toolkit of strategies enterprise approach
to help your to agile which is
organization be what our industry
more successful has been lacking in
with agile. the past.
Understanding
what your options
are, and which
ones work in
different contexts
leads to better
decisions.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION UPSKILLING PEOPLE & TEAMS
Exploit new business Increase agile success with better skills
opportunities, increase relevance and tailored agile via the DISCIPLINED
& competitiveness leveraging AGILE Toolkit (Choose your WoW)
BRIGHTLINE COMPASS Partner Offerings: Team Training,
Partner Offerings: Assessments, Team Coaching
Workshops PMI / DA
offers multiple paths to
agility and business
DISCIPLINED AGILE performance AGILE AT SCALE
TRANSFORMATION OPTIMIZATION
Structured Lean OCM to streamline Improving ROI of existing SAFe
digital business agility across IT and investments by resolving problems,
business for organizations of ALL sizes increasing flow of value to customers
Partner Offerings: Enterprise Coach Training, Partner Offerings: SAFe Optimization & Training
Team & Enterprise Coaching with DA-FLEX
THANK YOU
Mark Lines
Co-founder, Disciplined Agile

Project Management Institute

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lean/continuous flow continuous delivery lean lean startup

We hit the limits of the (prescriptive) framework

Things get better

Start where you are, 36

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