Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

Disciplined Agile Delivery is a learning-oriented, people-first hybrid approach to IT solution delivery. DAD is goal-driven and can scalable with the risk-value delivery lifecycle. The framework of DAD gives a simplified process to make a decision around the incremental and iterative solution delivery. Using DAD streamlines in the IT work is quite good because it allows for great scaling. DAD has been adapted to other strategies such as Scrum, Agile modeling, Unified Process, and Kanban, to create a hybrid delivery system with relevant parts from each technique.

• Disciplined Agile Delivery is the goal-driven approach, meaning that DAD is more flexible and accessible to scale the work than the other agile method. From the beginning, DAD offers choices that lead to the end goal and also includes the other possible options to consider, before making a final decision. The goal of DAD consists of four main sections: the inception phase, construction phase, transition phase, and the ongoing goals. The inception phase focuses on identifying the end goal, putting people into a team and developing a strategy while securing funding and identifying risks. The construction phase consists of addressing the shareholder’s needs and working closer to reach the end goals. The transition phase is to check that the solution is ready to be deployed and implement it. The ongoing goals should be focused on growing the team, completing the project task, continue to address risk, and have constant improvement. DAD lifecycle addresses the entire project from pre-production to post-production, unlike primary agile methods.
• Disciplined Agile Delivery is people-driven, so the team aspect of DAD is essential. The role division must be clear in order to have the success of using DAD. The primary of the DAD framework consists of five significant roles, these roles will always be in a DAD framework in any scale of mission, these roles are the stakeholder, product owner, team leader, team member, and the architecture owner. The secondary roles are domain expert, technical expert, tester, integrator and any number of specialists. Sometimes, these secondary team members have been using temporarily to address an issue in scaling. So these teams work together and with the clients to ensure that the product is exactly as it should be. DAD also allows teams to share their discoveries with the other teams.
• Disciplined Agile Delivery promotes a risk-value lifecycle, The riskier work is done at the beginning of the project to increase the chances of success. But this can also lead to failure in the earlier so the team has more time to come up with the solution. DAD teams are able to see their goals together and reach their goal as a team, instead of individual goals that may not lead to final success. DAD is a good development approach to solution delivery that is adapted to each project.