The Disciplined Agile IT Department

The Disciplined Agile IT Department

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Agenda

•  The evolution of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework •  Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) •  Disciplined Agile DevOps •  Disciplined Agile IT •  The IT Process Blades •  Parting thoughts •  Q&A


Disciplined IT

Disciplined DevOps

Evolution of the Disciplined Agile Framework


DAD

The Disciplined Agile framework supports four delivery lifecycles


Disciplined DevOps: More Than Delivery + Ops


Strategic Scaling: The Agile IT Department



The Continuous Improvement process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Sharing potential improvements across teams –  Supporting teams –  Governing continuous improvement efforts


The Data Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Improving data quality –  Evolving data management assets –  Governing data management efforts


The Enterprise Architecture process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Supporting stakeholders –  Supporting delivery teams –  Evolving the enterprise architecture –  Capturing the enterprise architecture –  Governing enterprise architecture efforts

Goal IT Governance


The IT Governance process blade addresses strategies for: •  Consolidating various governance views •  Defining metrics •  Taking measurements •  Monitoring and reporting on measurements •  Develop and capture guidance •  Defining roles and responsibilities •  Sharing knowledge within your organization •  Managing IT risk •  Governing various governance efforts


The Operations process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Running systems in production –  Managing the infrastructure –  Evolving the infrastructure –  Mitigating disasters –  Governing operations efforts


The People Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Forming teams –  Helping people to manage their careers –  Training, coaching, and educating people –  Human resource planning within your IT

department –  Managing movement of people within your

organization –  Reward structures –  Governing people management efforts


The Portfolio Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Identifying products/projects –  Prioritizing products/projects –  Initiating product/project teams –  Managing vendors –  Governing portfolio management efforts


The Product Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Managing a product, including allocating features to a product

–  Evolving the business vision for a product –  Managing functional dependencies –  Marketing the product line –  Governing product management efforts


The Program Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Managing large product/project teams –  Allocating requirements between sub teams –  Managing dependencies between sub teams –  Coordinating sub teams –  Governing a program


The Release Management process blade addresses strategies for:

–  Planning the IT release schedule –  Coordinating releases of solutions –  Managing the release infrastructure –  Supporting delivery teams –  Governing release management efforts


The Reuse Engineering process blade addresses: –  Strategies for obtaining assets –  Publishing assets –  Supporting delivery teams –  Evolving assets –  Governing reuse engineering efforts


The Support process blade addresses strategies for –  Determining your overall support strategy –  Escalating incidents –  Addressing incidents –  Governing support efforts


Strategic Scaling: The Agile IT Department


IT is only one part of your organization



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Shuhari and Disciplined Agile Certification

At the shu stage you are beginning to learn the techniques and philosophies of

disciplined agile development. Your goal is to build a strong foundation from

which to build upon.

At the ha stage you reflect upon and question why disciplined agile strategies work, seeking to understand the range

of strategies available to you and when they are best applied.

At the ri stage you seek to extend and

improve upon disciplined agile techniques, sharing your learnings with

others.


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