Why
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#1 Disciplined Agile enables
your teams to better optimize
how they work and how they
collaborate with others.
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Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System (CAS)
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#2 Disciplined Agile is an
agnostic tool kit of strategies
gets you ready for choosing
and evolving your Way of
Working (WoW).
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Secure funding
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#3 Disciplined Agile enables
your teams to tailor their
WoW at scale.
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Tactically scaling agile is about more
than team size.
One Way of Working (WoW) for
all teams will not suffice!
Teams must be allowed to
choose and then evolve their
WoW to meet the unique and
changing situation that they
face.
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#4 Disciplined Agile enables you
to extend agility beyond
teams to the entire
organization.
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Business
Agility
Disciplined Agile
across the
enterprise
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#5 Disciplined Agile describes
how to implement and then
tailor value streams.
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The DA FLEX life cycle
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Why Disciplined Agile?
Disciplined Agile:
• Enables your teams to better optimize how they work and how they
collaborate with others.
• Is an agnostic tool kit of strategies gets you ready for choosing and
evolving your Way of Working (WoW).
• Enables your teams to tailor their WoW at scale.
• Enables you to extend agility beyond teams to the entire organization.
• Describes how to implement and then tailor value streams.
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Action Plan: What’s Next?
Read more about Disciplined Agile.
• See https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile
Take the Basics of Disciplined Agile workshop.
• Eight module, online workshop
• Earn 10 PDUs!
• See https://www.pmi.org/da-basics
Earn a Disciplined Agile certification.
• Several certifications. Choose the one that’s right for you.
• See https://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/certifications
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