Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT) addresses how to apply agile and lean strategies to all aspects of Information Technology (IT) processes. This includes IT-level activities such as IT operations, support, data management, reuse engineering, and other capabilities. As you can see in the following figure, DAIT is one of four levels of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit. As you can see, DAIT encompasses Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and Disciplined DevOps.
The Workflow of DAIT
The following diagram depicts a high-level overview of the workflow for DAIT (click on the diagram to expand it).
For more information about this workflow:
- Click here for an interactive version of the workflow diagram that explores the process blades – DAIT Workflow
- Click here for an interactive version of the workflow diagram that explores people’s roles – DAIT People Workflow
- Click here for a downloadable poster (in several formats)
The Process Blades of DAIT
The process blades of DAIT are:
- Continuous Improvement
- Data Management
- Enterprise Architecture
- IT Governance
- IT Operations
- Lifecycle – Agile (Scrum based)
- Lifecycle – Continuous Delivery: Agile
- Lifecycle – Continuous Delivery: Lean
- Lifecycle – Exploratory (Lean Startup)
- Lifecycle – Lean (Kanban)
- Lifecycle – Program (Team of Teams)
- People Management
- Portfolio Management
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Release Management
- Reuse Engineering
- Support