The primary reference for disciplined agile delivery is the book Choose Your WoW!,[1] written by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines.
[3] According to Cutter Senior Consultant Bhuvan Unhelkar, "DAD provides a carefully constructed mechanism that not only streamlines IT work, but more importantly, enables scaling.
"[5] Scott Ambler and Mark Lines initially led the development of DAD, and continue to lead its evolution.
"[12] DAD supports a robust set of roles (see below section), rights, and responsibilities that you can tailor to meet the needs of your situation.
[13] DAD is a hybrid toolkit that adopts and tailors proven strategies from existing methods such as scrum, extreme programming (XP), SAFe, agile modeling (AM), Unified Process (UP), Kanban , outside-in software development, agile data (AD) and Spotify's development model.
Rather than taking the time to adapt one of these existing frameworks, with DAD all of the effort of combining relevant pieces of each technique has already been done.
DAD shows how development, modeling, architecture, management, requirements/outcomes, documentation, governance and other strategies fit together in a streamlined whole.
While software is clearly an important part of the deliverable, being solution focused means taking a holistic view of the overall problem.
They must still work in an enterprise aware manner that reflects the priorities of their organization, and to do that they will need to be governed appropriately by senior leadership.