Choose your WoW : A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working

Choose Your WoW!
	A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working
		Copyright
		Foreword
		Preface
			Why You Need to Read This Book
			How This Book Is Organized
			Who This Book Is For
			Acknowledgments
		Contents
		Chapter 1: Choosing Your WoW!
			Why Should Teams Choose Their WoW?
			You Need to “Be Agile” and Know How to “Do Agile”
			Accept That There’s No Easy Answer
			We Can Benefit From the Learnings of Others
			DA Knowledge Makes You a Far More Valuable Team Member
			The Disciplined Agile (DA) Tool Kit Provides Accessible Guidance
			Contextualized Process Reference
			Improvement Occurs at Many Levels
			Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI)
			Process-Tailoring Workshops
				Process-Tailoring Workshops in a Large Financial Institution
			Enhance Retrospectives Through Guided Improvement Options
			Enhance Coaching by Extending the Coach’s Process Tool Kit
			Documenting Your WoW
			In Summary
		Chapter 2: Being Disciplined
			The Manifesto for Agile Software Development
			Lean Software Development
			The Disciplined Agile Mindset
			We Believe in These Principles
			Principle: Delight Customers
			Principle: Be Awesome
			Principle: Context Counts
			Principle: Be Pragmatic
			Principle: Choice Is Good
			Principle: Optimize Flow
			Principle: Organize Around Products/Services
			Principle: Enterprise Awareness
			We Promise To
			Promise: Create Psychological Safety and Embrace Diversity
			Promise: Accelerate Value Realization
			Promise: Collaborate Proactively
			Promise: Make All Work and Workflow Visible
			Promise: Improve Predictability
			Promise: Keep Workloads Within Capacity
			Promise: Improve Continuously
			We Follow These Guidelines
			Guideline: Validate Our Learnings
			Guideline: Apply Design Thinking
			Guideline: Attend to Relationships Through the Value Stream
			Guideline: Create Effective Environments That Foster Joy
			Guideline: Change Culture by Improving the System
			Guideline: Create Semi-Autonomous, Self-Organizing Teams
			Guideline: Adopt Measures to Improve Outcomes
			Guideline: Leverage and Enhance Organizational Assets
			And a Few More Great Philosophies
			In Summary
			Mindset Is Only the Beginning
		Chapter 3: Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) in a Nutshell
			What’s New With DAD?
			People First: Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities
			A Hybrid of Great Ideas
			Choice Is Good: Process Goals
			Choice Is Good: Multiple Life Cycle Support
			Consumable Solutions Over Working Software
			DAD Terminology
			Context Counts: DAD Provides the Foundation for Scaling Agile Tactically
			It’s Easy to Get Started With DAD
			In Summary
		Chapter 4: Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities
			Rights and Responsibilities
			Potential Roles
			Stakeholder
			Product Owner
			Team Member
				Why not call a team lead a scrum master?
			Team Lead
			Architecture Owner
			Potential Supporting Roles
			The Three Leadership Roles
			Do We Need the Scrum Roles at All?
			Tailoring DAD Team Roles for Your Organization
			DAD and Traditional Roles
			In Summary
		Chapter 5: Process Goals
			Why a Goal-Driven Approach?
			How Much Detail Is Enough?
			Context Counts: Disciplined Agile Teams Are Goal-Driven
			Process Goal Diagrams
			But This Is So Complicated!
			Getting to the Details: Option Tables and References
			How to Apply Process Goals in Practice
			In Summary
		Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Life Cycle
			A Quick History Lesson: The Serial Life Cycle
			The Project Mindset Leads to Agile Phases, and That’s Okay
				Agile History Lesson
			Shift Left, Shift Right, Deliver Continuously
			Choice Is Good: DAD’s Life Cycles
			DAD’s Agile Life Cycle
			DAD’s Continuous Delivery: Agile Life Cycle
			DAD’s Lean Life Cycle
				Outcomes Lead to Continuous Exploration
			DAD’s Continuous Delivery: Lean Life Cycle
			DAD’s Exploratory Life Cycle
			DAD’s Program Life Cycle for a “Team of Teams”
			When Should You Adopt Each Life Cycle?
			Different Life Cycles With Common Milestones
				Explicit Phases and Governance Make Agile More Palatable to Management
				MVPs Versus MBIs
			Life Cycles Are Just Starting Points
				Life Cycle Evolution Is a Good Thing
			In Summary
		Chapter 7: Disciplined Success
			If You Are Doing Agile, You Are Already Using DA
			DA Is Agile for the Enterprise
			Learn Faster to Succeed Earlier
			Use the DA Browser
			Invest in Certification to Retain Your New Knowledge
			Please Get Involved
		References
		Acronyms and Abbreviations
		Index
		About the Authors