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“Organize Around Products/Services” Is a Great Addition to the Disciplined Agile Principles

By: Kiron Bondale, PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM II, PMI-RMP, CDAP, CDAI June 10th, 2020

The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around Products/Services”.

What is Disciplined Agile

By: Megan Bell, MPM, PMP June 3rd, 2020

The 13th Annual State of Agile Survey, released in 2019 and reflecting a global audience, revealed companies are moving to agile to increase productivity, improve team moral, and decrease project costs. Those same business drivers are embedded in the emerging area of Disciplined Agile (DA) which has continued to grow since it’s 2012 inception at IBM. In fact, The Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit became part of the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) in August 2019, and with that, 4000 DA credential holders became part of PMI. Whether you are growing your company’s in-house Agile skill set or looking for a tool kit to connect existing Agile frameworks, Disciplined Agile will help.

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