Disciplined Agile Certification Training is very much a tool kit, not a framework. An agile framework will present you with a collection of what it considers to be “best practices,” but the reality is that all practices are contextual in nature, working well in some situations and poorly in others. DA takes a more sophisticated approach, surfacing the decisions that you need to consider, the options available to you, and the trade-offs associated with these options. In short, DA is a process-decision tool kit that enables you to easily choose your own WoW that is fit-for-purpose for you. Where frameworks prescribe what to do, regardless of whether it is appropriate for you, the DA tool kit instead provides you with freedom of choice.

Within any given team you can use DA to identify the intents and the activities you should address so you can make context-specific choices that are the best for your situation.

DA addresses four views:

• Mindset. DA builds on the foundations of agile and lean to address enterprise realities.
• People. DA describes the roles, responsibilities, and team structures you should have in place.
• Flow. DA describes the dynamic aspects of processes via lifecycle and workflow diagrams.
• Practices. DA outlines the techniques that move your team forward, using straightforward goal diagrams that provide a high-level picklist of practices.