Agility and Flexibility
DSDM Atern involves all stakeholders such as the business representatives throughout an iterative and incremental lifecycle.
All personnel involved in a project are given clear roles and responsibilities and work together in a timeboxes to ensure the project is kept on schedule.
DSDM Atern strikes the balance between performing a lot of 'up-front' design or performing none. DSDM Atern believes in doing 'enough design up-front' in order to reduce risk yet still allow for the inevitability of change.
DSDM Atern can be used with other approaches. An example of this is PRINCE2TM which integrates very well with DSDM Atern. Keith Richards Director of KRC has written the 'ground breaking' book on this integration (see home page).
The Atern framework is made up of 8 principles, a lifecycle and products, roles and responsibilities and several 'best practice' techniques. All of this underpins and supports a philosophy of delivering strategically aligned business benefit as early as possible.
