Recently PMI has started offered Disciplined Agile Certifications targeting project management professionals. So what is it? How is it different any other lean agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS so on?
“For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.”
Kenneth Noland
One of the principles behind Disciplined Agile® (DA™) is Context Counts. Every person is unique, with their own set of skills, preferences for workstyle, career goals, and learning styles. Every team is unique not only because it is composed of unique people but also because it faces a unique situation. Your organization is also unique, even when there are other organizations that operate in the same marketplace that you do.
Unlink any other popular lean agile frameworks such as Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (#SAFe) – Disciplined Agile (#DA) offers interesting alternative/approach to business agility. It is less prescriptive and more focused on a goal based approach. So it will help you as an agile leader to decide when to apply which of those popular agile frameworks.
Rather than assuming that one size fits all, Disciplined Agile advocates fit for the context approach to bring in agility in your team or organisation.
Doesn’t matter what’s your title or what kind of an organisational constraints you are facing – there are plenty of choices available to meet your goal based on the team structure, funding structure, technology and domain complexities.
It all starts with deciding what GOAL you want to achieve and then exploring multiple DECISION POINTS which is followed by several OPTIONS to choose from.
DA also advocates that you should explore 5 Agile Delivery Lifecycles before deciding which one to use. This helps to understand what agile practices or perhaps frameworks or lean agile methodologies such as#SCRUM,#SAFe,#KANBANyou can follow to serve better.
In a nutshell , DA provides toolkit which you can use to bring in agility in your team, in your group (team of teams) as well as at the organisation level.
So go ahead and explore it as a TEAM LEADER, SCRUM MASTER, AGILE COACH , PROJECT/DELIVERY MANAGER to ensure that you don’t get blindsides by any popular agile framework but choose new WOW (Ways of Working) wisely based on the context.
