Supporting Governance in Disciplined Agile Delivery Using Noninvasive Measurement and Process Mining

摘要

Customers not only expect developers to provide working code, but also to contribute toward a working IT system. Developers need to cooperate closely with the team that handles IT operations in order to coordinate and integrate software development, technology operations, and quality assurance.1 To accomplish this, approaches like the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework have been proposed. The DAD process decision framework differentiates itself from other Agile methods in that it provides an end-to-end solution delivery lifecycle (i.e., a description of how a team can proceed from the inception of an IT solution to its release).2 It incorporates recognized software development methods such as Scrum, Kanban, Agile Modeling, and Extreme Programming and extends these "construction-focused" methods with approaches that ensure the delivery of a solution and not just working code. DAD considers governance to be of major importance, and it incorporates explicit guidelines to implement governance into the process.