Enterprise Agile Transformation Flashcards
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A DA Coach is advising on restructuring a 5,000-person IT organization. Which DA concept guides how to balance team autonomy with enterprise consistency?
Answer: Constrained autonomy
DA's 'constrained autonomy' principle allows teams freedom within enterprise guardrails, balancing local optimization with global coherence.
When using DA's Inception phase at the enterprise level, what is the CRITICAL deliverable?
Answer: A lightweight business case with initial stakeholder alignment
DA's Inception phase produces a lightweight business case and aligns key stakeholders, avoiding over-planning before learning begins.
An enterprise agile transformation is failing because teams are agile but governance processes remain waterfall. What DA concept addresses this root cause?
Answer: Lean governance
DA's lean governance concept modernizes governance processes to support iterative delivery rather than requiring phase-gate approvals.
In the DA toolkit, which process blade is MOST focused on managing dependencies between agile teams at scale?
Answer: Coordinate Activities
The 'Coordinate Activities' process blade in DA specifically addresses how teams synchronize and manage cross-team dependencies.
A DAC practitioner notices that the enterprise transformation has created 'agile islands' — isolated agile teams surrounded by traditional processes. What is the recommended approach?
Answer: Expand transformation systematically to adjacent value streams and support functions
DA recommends systematically expanding transformation to adjacent areas, connecting agile teams to supporting functions to eliminate the surrounding constraints.
How does DA's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) differ from team-level Scrum in an enterprise context?
Answer: DAD provides a more complete lifecycle including enterprise concerns like architecture and governance
DAD extends beyond Scrum by addressing the full delivery lifecycle including enterprise architecture, data management, and governance concerns.
Which DA principle recognizes that different parts of an enterprise may legitimately need different agile approaches simultaneously?
Answer: One size fits one
DA's 'one size fits one' principle acknowledges that different teams and contexts within the same enterprise may need different ways of working.