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

by Mark Lines, Scott Ambler

Overview

Hundreds of organizations around the world have already benefited from Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Disciplined Agile® (DA™) is the only comprehensive tool kit available for guidance on building high-performance agile teams and optimizing your way of working (WoW). As a hybrid of the leading agile, lean, and predictive approaches, DA provides hundreds of strategies to help you make better decisions within your agile teams, balancing self-organization with the realities and constraints of your unique enterprise context. This book: • Provides a foundation for enterprise agility, value streams, and a disciplined approach to DevOps; • Is a pragmatic application of agile, lean, and predictive techniques for your enterprise-class environment; • Overviews a strategy for teams to evolve a fit-for-purpose, flexible WoW that still supports a consistent governance strategy for leadership; and • Makes a perfect study guide for Disciplined Agile certification. Why “fail fast” (as the agile industry likes to recommend) when you can learn quickly on your journey to high performance? With this book, you can make better decisions based upon proven, context-based strategies, leading to earlier success and better outcomes. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628257540
Publisher:	Project Management Institute
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Edition description:	Second edition
Pages:	125
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 10.75(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines are cocreators of PMI Disciplined Agile and authors of several books about agile approaches. They have decades of experience implementing agile and lean approaches at organizations around the world and are both sought-after keynote speakers. 

Table of Contents

Foreword iii

Preface v

1 Choosing Your WoW! 1

2 Being Disciplined 21

3 Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) in a Nutshell 45

4 Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities 57

5 Process Goals 71

6 Choosing the Right Life Cycle 81

7 Disciplined Success 109

References 111

Acronyms and Abbreviations 115

Index 117

About the Authors 125