Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) by Mark Lines, Agile Coach at Scott Ambler
Channel: OGuild
Date: 06/07/2015

Mark Lines, Managing Partner & Enterprise Agile Coach at Scott Ambler + Associates, Co-creator of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) from Canada, talks about DAD and taking Agile to the next level.

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a process decision framework that enables simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices espoused by advocates of agile software development, including Scrum, agile modeling, lean software development, and others.

DAD is being used by many organizations.
 DAD is a process decision framework and not another methodology.
It is a hybrid framework of the existing methods.
- DAD builds on Scrum.
- DAD takes out the branding.
- DAD is about what is going on in enterprise.
- DAD Life-cyle in three phases:
• Inception Phase
• Construction Phase
• Transition Phase
- In DAD you can do Scrum, Lean and Continuous Delivery.
- DAD has Roles very similar to Scrum Roles:
• Team Lead
• Product Owner
• Architecture Owner
• Team Member
• Stakeholder
- DAD is goal driven, not prescriptive.
- Governance strategies built into DAD.
- Comparing DAD to SAFe:
• DAD can be used for all sizes of teams, SAFe is used for large teams
- Is DAD an evaluation of RUP (Rational Unified Process)? – RUP developed a bad reputation over the years as people misused it. RUP is being used case driven.
- Why do we need sequential phases?
- Why do you want to prescribe more roles in a team?
- You can tailor RUP – to the absolute minimum.

Watch the video to know more.