The document discusses business agility and the Disciplined Agile Framework. It defines business agility as the ability to respond rapidly to internal and external changes without losing momentum or vision. It also describes agile organizations as being adaptive, lean, responsive, and focused on learning. Finally, it introduces the Disciplined Agile Framework as providing light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline IT and business processes in a context-sensitive manner in order to provide the process foundation for business agility.

1. Business Agility:
A Disciplined Viewpoint
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2. Agenda
• Business Agility
• Agile Organizations
• The Disciplined Agile Framework
• Parting thoughts
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3. Why Business Agility?
• The pace of business and technology change is accelerating
• Customers expect to be constantly delighted
• Complexity is increasing
• Security threats are growing
• Dramatic political changes occur regularly
• Outside organizations are disrupting established industries
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4. What is Business Agility?
Business agility is the ability to respond rapidly to changes
within your internal and external environment
without losing momentum or vision
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Adaptability
Flexibility Balance

5. Agile Organizations
Agile organizations are
adaptive, lean, responsive,
and focused on learning
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6. Agile Organizations are Complex Adaptive
Systems
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Team
A
Agile teams are:
• Self-organizing
• Collaborative
• Evolving
Team
D
Team
C
Team
B
Team
E
Teams collaborate with
one another and learn
from doing so
Teams have shifting
webs of interactions

7. Teams Face
Unique
Situations
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8. The Disciplined Agile Framework
The Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision
framework describes light-weight guidance to help
organizations streamline their information
technology (IT) and business processes in a
context-sensitive manner
The DA framework provides the process
foundation for business agility
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9. Disciplined
Agile Enterprise
Disciplined
Agile IT
Disciplined
DevOps
DAD
The Disciplined Agile Framework
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10. The Seven Principles
of Disciplined Agile
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Delight
Customers
Pragmatism
Be
Awesome
Context
Counts
Choice is
Good
Optimize
Flow
Enterprise
Awareness
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11. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
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The key characteristics of DAD:
– People-first
– Goal-driven
– Hybrid agile
– Learning-oriented
– Full delivery lifecycle
– Solution focused
– Risk-value lifecycle
– Enterprise aware
Foundation of the Disciplined Agile (DA)
framework
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Workflow of Disciplined DevOps
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13. Workflow of Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)
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14. The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
A Disciplined Agile Enterprise is able to anticipate and respond swiftly to changes in the
marketplace. It does this through an organizational culture and structure that facilitates change
within the context of the situation that it faces. Such organizations require a learning mindset in
the mainstream business and underlying lean and agile processes to drive innovation.
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15. The Disciplined Agile Framework
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Parting Thoughts
• Agile organizations lead the market place
• Improvement requires hard work, there are no
easy solutions
• Every organization is unique, one size does not
fit all – Beware prescriptive methods
• The DA framework looks at the whole picture to
address the question of how does it all fit
together
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Thank You!
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18. The Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC) supports and evolves the Disciplined Agile
process decision framework.
The DAC site, DisciplinedAgileConsortium.org, provides information on curriculum
and learning resources for Disciplined Agile practitioners. It is also the home of the
Disciplined Agile certification program.
The Disciplined Agile blog, DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com, provides a wealth of
articles and blog postings about Disciplined Agile topics.
The Disciplined Agile discussion forum, LinkedIn.com/groups/4685263, is a meeting
place for Disciplined Agile practitioners to share their experiences and to get
questions answered.
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