Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Small Agile Team’s Journey from Scrum to Continuous Delivery

Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery provides a quick overview of how agile software development works from beginning-to-end. It describes the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process decision framework and then works through a case study describing a typical agile team’s experiences adopting a disciplined agile approach. The book describes how the team develops the first release of a mission-critical application while working in a legacy enterprise environment. It describes their experiences from beginning-to-end, starting with their initial team initiation efforts through construction and finally to deploying the solution into production. It also describes how the team stays together for future releases, overviewing their process improvement efforts from their Scrum-based beginnings through to a lean continuous delivery approach that fits in with their organization’s evolving DevOps strategy. The DAD framework is a hybrid of existing methods such as Scrum, Kanban, Agile Modeling, SAFe, Extreme Programming, Agile Data, Unified Process and many others. DAD provides the flexibility to use various approaches and plugs the gaps not addressed by mainstream agile methods. In a nutshell, DAD is “pragmatic agile.” DAD describes proven strategies to adapt and scale your agile initiatives to suit the unique realities of your enterprise without having to figure it all out by yourself.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 RealitY over Rhetoric
Chapter 3 Disciplined Agile Delivery IN A NUTSHELL
Chapter 4 Introduction to the Case Study
Chapter 5 Inception
Chapter 6 Construction Iteration C1
Chapter 7 Construction Iteration C2
Chapter 8 Construction Iteration C3
Chapter 9 Construction Iteration C7
Chapter 10 Construction Iteration C10
Chapter 11 Transition
Chapter 12 Further Releases
Chapter 13 Closing THoughts
Appendix: The Disciplined Agile IT Department