Toward a Disciplined Agile Manifesto

First of all, we are big fans of the ideas captured in the Agile Manifesto. Over the past decade we’ve applied the principles with great benefit for our customers and have learned from our experiences and from the experiences of other successful organizations doing so. However, what we’ve learned has motivated us to suggest enhancements to the manifesto to reflect the enterprise situations in which we have applied agile and lean strategies. These enhancements reflect the realities faced by most Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) teams.

We believe that the changes we’re suggesting to the Agile Manifesto are straightforward: