Leaders are born or leadership can be learned is something we discussed at the beginning of our interview with Mark Lines. He says people grow into leadership with experience. He also highlights what is Disciplined Agile and why should people care about it.
Interviewee: Mark Lines (Co-creator of the Disciplined Agile framework)
Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is an Agile Coach and co-creator of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework. Mark is co-author with Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. Mark is a “disciplined” agile coach, helping organizations all over the world transform from traditional to agile methods. He writes for many publications including the Cutter Consortium and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Mark is also a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined Agile.
Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)
Definition: Disciplined agile delivery is a process decision framework that enables simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices espoused by advocates of agile software development, including Scrum, agile modeling, lean software development, and others. Further Reading: Book: Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott…
Definition: The Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is a contextual framework for effective adoption and tailoring of agile practices to meet the unique challenges faced by a system delivery team of any size. The ASM distinguishes between three scaling categories Core agile development, Disciplined agile delivery and Agility at Scale. Further…
Definition: Dynamic systems development method is an agile project delivery framework, initially used as a software development method. First released in 1994, DSDM originally sought to provide some discipline to the rapid application development method. Further Reading: Book: Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines.
