What is Disciplined Agile ?

The original Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) was first promoted in 2001 by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Since then ideas have changed and evolved. Agile has become distorted by practical implementations and the needs of industry. The Disciplined Agile Manifesto is offered as an extension to the original framework to address these changing demands while keeping the four core values the same.

Traditional values held upheld by the Agile Manifesto are:

1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Consumable solutions over comprehensive documentation
3. Stakeholder collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan

Disciplined agilists value the items on the left more above those on the right of each of the above statements.

The main principles behind the disciplined agile manifesto extend these ideas with ...

• Satisfy the stakeholder through early and continue to deliver of valuable solutions.
• Deliver consumable solutions often with a preference to the shorter time scale.
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
• Embrace changing requirements, no matter how late in the delivery lifecycle. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
• Keep things simple by removing unnecessary work or activity.The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
• Stakeholders and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
• Build motivated teams by providing them with the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
• Face to ace communication is the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a delivery team.
• Measure progress based on consumable solutions.
• The stakeholders, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
• Teams should reflect on how to become more effective and adjust its behavior accordingly.
• Make the most of your assets, both tangible and intangible to improve productivity
• Evolve the enterprise to support agile, non-agile, and hybrid teams.