Finding context
DA allows disparate teams within the same enterprise to choose their WOW based on situational needs and context-specific choices. This statement means that each team must evaluate their needs and select the techniques that best apply to their situation. Still, if the team members are not aware of the potential solutions to their problems, they'll have to spend time and effort on research to uncover proven and applicable approaches. Moreover, if the team is under pressure to make a decision and move on, they may employ a suboptimal strategy.
The better approach is to have a library or knowledge base of identified practices, placed in context with the types of problems that the development team is likely to face. This context-based knowledge base of potential techniques is the approach that DA takes to help guide team decision making.
In this sense, DA is a toolkit of hundreds of optional methods and tools with decisions and tradeoffs for the team to consider...
