In Disciplined Agile® (DA™), we have always promoted a “people first” philosophy. This shows in the DA principles of be awesome and delight customers, the DA promises to create psychological safety and embrace diversity, and the DA guidelines to create effective environments that foster joy and create semi-autonomous, self-organizing teams.
Motivating Individuals
People are intrinsically motivated by three things: mastery, autonomy, and purpose.
Power Skills
Power skills are the behaviors that enable people to succeed.
Common Team Roles
There are common roles that people fill on Disciplined Agile teams.
Specialist Roles
There are specialist roles pertinent to each process blade.
Rights and Responsibilities
One way to define expected behavior is to negotiate the rights and responsibilities that people have.