When You’re Agnostic You Can Find Value Where Others Find Only Buzzwords

 

Disciplined Agile is agnostic in the way science is agnostic – we look for what’s of value and discard the rest. Our approach is held up to objective measures. With over a century of Agile experience on our IP team, we find value most everywhere. Many people look at a competing approach and see just what’s wrong. We look at it and also see what value is in it. We then include that value in a cohesive approach based on Flow, Lean, Agile, ToC, organizational development, human psychology and more. These are not buzz words to us either. Each contributes as aspect of an ontology that helps explain how things work.

Disciplined Agile does not include the entirety of other approaches. With few exceptions most do not have a scientific approach and/or have an architecture that does not allow inclusion without also adding complexity. But value is there. Scrum provides the value of cross-functional teams, XP technical practices, SAFe coordinating teams with dependencies, Kanban guiding change through Kaizen, …

We can provide dispersed nuggets of value because we are built on a broad foundation of what is so, not merely a few practices that worked for one of us at some time in the past.