Download presentation

Mark Lines

Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott W. Ambler + Associates. He is an IT Process Consultant and Agile Coach. With Scott, he is co-author of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. He is a “disciplined” agile coach, helping organizations all over the world transform from traditional to agile methods. He also helps customize agile governance practices to accelerate complex projects in large enterprises. He writes for many publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark delivers workshops on Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) as well as other agile topics. Mark blogs about DAD at www.DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. He can be reached at mark [at] scottwambler.com

Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) in a Nutshell

The good news is that evidence clearly shows that agile methods deliver superior results compared to traditional approaches and that the majority of organizations are either using agile techniques or plan to in the near future. The bad news is that the mainstream agile methods – including Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and Agile Modeling (AM) – each provide only a part of the overall picture for IT solution delivery.

Come hear about the realities of agile development in enterprise environments and how IBM’s Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework takes mainstream agile methods to the next level. We show how DAD pulls together common practices and strategies from these methods, and more, to address the full delivery lifecycle from project initiation to releasing the solution into production. The DAD process framework provides a strong foundation from which to successfully address the challenges of Agility@Scale.