Book StructureThe content of this book is set out in 13 chapters and one Appendix as follows:
1. | Introduction |
2. | Reality over Rhetoric |
3. | Disciplined Agile Delivery in a Nutshell |
4. | Introduction to the Case Study |
5. | Inception |
6. | Construction Iteration C1 |
7. | Construction Iteration C2 |
8. | Construction Iteration C3 |
9. | Construction Iteration C7 |
10. | Construction Iteration C10 |
11. | Transition |
12. | The Road to Disciplined DevOps |
13. | Closing Thoughts |
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Appendix A: The Disciplined Agile Tool Kit |
The book has a total of 87 pages. The Appendix does not include a Glossary of Terms. The authors introduce their book with a number of comments that include the following:[3]
"Many organizations are struggling to be successful with mainstream agile methods such as Scrum. Sometimes the impulse is to give up and try the next great thing as Lean or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). The reality is that the source of failure of existing agile adoptions can often be traced to either the misapplication of core agile principles or a naïve approach to scaling agile and the need to address enterprise concerns." "This is where the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit comes in. DA is a hybrid of existing methods that provides the flexibility to use various approaches as well as plugging some gaps not addressed by mainstream agile methods. In a nutshell, DA, and more importantly the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) portion of it that is the focus of this book, is 'pragmatic agile'."[4]
3. Ibid, p1.
4. At the time of writing this book, the definitive guide to DAD was: "Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Software Development in the Enterprise". This precious book can be found on the DA Blog at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com.***
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Introduction
