Choose Your WoW - Second Edition

Chapter 3

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) in a Nutshell

Discipline is doing what you know needs to be done, even if you don't want to do it.—Unknown

Key Points in This Chapter

•DAD is the delivery portion of the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit—it is not just another methodology.

•If you are using Scrum, XP, or Kanban, you are already using variations of a subset of DAD.

•DAD provides six life cycles to choose from; it doesn't prescribe a single way of working—choice is good.

•DAD addresses key enterprise concerns.

•DAD does the process heavy lifting so that you don't have to.

•DAD shows how agile development works from beginning to end.

•DAD provides a flexible foundation from which to tactically scale mainstream methods.

•It is easy to get ...