What is the Definition of Disciplined Agile?
Wouldn't you be overjoyed to learn that you've completed all of your preparations for your trip to Ladakh? You have done adequate preparation in terms of your budget, timeframes, circuit, and agenda for this 10-day trip as a typical planner and core project professional at heart. You are so energized from the planning that you can now relax and focus on other activities that must be completed in your daily routine as usual, since the plan's execution is three months away.
Three months will be over soon. You learn a week before your vacation that you must cancel owing to an acute emergency in your family (known-unknown risk). Your heart bleeds, but because you are a mature, well-balanced individual, you decide to take action right away and bargain with yourself to postpone your trip to a later date. You go ahead and cancel all the reservations (it's like going to a cricket match for the first time in the world's largest stadium and finding out that the match has been cancelled due to the COVID problem).
Why am I giving you these stories? Because I wanted to convey to you a very important lesson that I had to learn the hard way and had to repeat several times on various occasions.
Well, there's a lovely equation in which I firmly believe:
(Event + Response = Outcome) E+R=O It is entirely up to you how you approach any circumstance. The notions of agility in business and in personal life are particularly well suited to the conditions described. You and your success are defined by how you adapt and adopt. You behave in response to your thoughts and feelings, which results in a result. The crux of the matter is how effective you are at absorbing positive and negative uncertainties, responding sportingly, and rebounding from frustrations, grief, and other bad emotions.
Welcome to the "Way of Working" universe. This word, which I first heard, is really important in my Disciplined Agile education and certifications.
Disciplined Agile is a new approach to agile development (Combination of two unique words, Agility with disciplined approach). This notion isn't new; in fact, it was first offered in 2012. "Agility," on the other hand, has become a popular buzzword.
Disciplined Agile, according to PMI (Project Management Institute), is not a framework, but rather a toolset that focuses on the decisions you must make, the options you have, and the trade-offs associated with these options. It demonstrates how to mix tactics from Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, and a variety of other approaches in a flexible and scalable way. Disciplined Agile helps organizations go to market faster, deliver value faster, and make their customers happier.
DA creates a strong basis for business agility by demonstrating how multiple operations such as Solution Delivery (software development), IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Security, Finance, and Procurement interact. DA also explains what these actions should address, offers a number of options for doing so, and explains the trade-offs that come with each option.
Why Disciplined Agile Is Important:
- Every firm is a software business, and DA gives you options for dealing with the complexity of this industry.
- Every industry is being thrown into disarray.
- Firms that are adaptable are the most successful.
- Every organization and every person is UNIQUE - DA allows you to customize your strategy.
- Organizations are CAS (Complex Adaptive Systems), and DA demonstrates how everything works together.
- You don't have to learn everything from the start just because you're unique — DA offers a mix of approaches.
- People/culture, procedures, and tooling are all important components of successful improvement attempts; disciplined agile gives process options.
