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==Principles==
The DSDM philosophy is supported by 8 core principles which are focused on the business need, on-time delivery, collaboration and communication, incremental and iterative work practices, a non-compromising stance on quality and the need to demonstrate control. These principles are trying to embrace the Agile values and create a mindset to people-teams’ attitude toward to deliver consistently while remaining flexible. These principles are really critical and should be strictly followed and adopted in order the DSDM approach to succeed and the full benefits of this framework to get exploit. Otherwise, it cannot be delivered the best business solutions.These principles are supporting with the DSDM lifecycle process, the appropriate set of roles and responsibilities, the artefacts-products and some main practices. Below there is a brief description of these principles.<ref name="a"/>
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'''1.	Focus on the Business Need<br>'''''
When DSDM approach is following, it is important all the teams that are involved in the project to understand and focus on the business priorities and needs, since all the decisions that are making regarding the project are around how to fulfill the business needs and understand what and when to be delivered. <br>

'''2.	Deliver on Time<br>'''''
One of the main goals and success factor of a project is the delivering on time. For this reason, in DSDM approach the teams should follow and meet deadlines by setting timeboxes which are a planned in advance timeframe but at the same time have a more variable and flexible scope in the in the pre-set deliverable.<br>

'''3.	Collaborate<br>'''''
Through collaboration can be achieved increased understanding, more efficient way of working, shared ownership which all of that will lead to increased performance. In order to be achieved a greater collaboration and fulfilled this principle, according to DSDM approach the teams firstly should empower their team members to take decision regarding the project, then engage the right stakeholder throughout the project at the right moment and finally build one team culture. In addition, all of these will be accomplished by setting the right roles and responsibilities to the right people and through facilitated workshops where their knowledge can be shared effectively with other members of the project team.<br>

'''4.	Never Compromise Quality<br>'''
Quality is really important for a project and level of quality and expectations should be agreed in the beginning. Everyone has to aim at achieving that level of quality. So as to accomplish this goal and principle, the teams that are involved in the project should firstly agree on the level of quality of the project before its deployment, then, guarantee that quality cannot be a variable, design, and document appropriately and lastly continuously testing from an early stage of the project. <br>

'''5.	Build Incrementally from Firm Foundations<br>'''
One thing that differentiates the DSDM approach from the rest Agile one is the concept of establishing firm foundations for the project in advance of the incremental development. According to the DSDM approach, it is really important first to understand the scope of the business problem and the proposed solution(firm foundations) but not in that detail which may cause delays due to an over-detailed analysis of requirements. Then, after the firm foundations have established, it is followed the incremental delivery of the project so as to deliver real business benefit as soon as possible. <br>

'''6.	Develop Iteratively<br>'''
According to this principle it is really rare an accurate business solution to developed and delivered at first without applied any changes and revaluation of the project. For that reason, it is needed a continuous process of development with which more details that are emerging later can be recognized, the creativity and the learning is encouraged, and embrace change since a lot of changes are needed in order to reach the desire result.<br>

'''7.	Communicate Continuously and Clearly<br>'''
It is usual that there are project failures because of poor communication between the teams and individuals. The DSDM aim to improve communication and its effectiveness and in order this to succeed different methods and practices are used from this framework, like stand-up meetings(scrum), facilitated workshops, visual communication. Additionally, teams are encouraged to informal communication and keeping lean and timely documentation.<br>

'''8.	Demonstrate Control<br>'''
The involved teams need to understand the value of project governance and the need to demonstrate control.  According to the DSDM approach in order to fulfill this principle, the plans and the progress should be visible to all, the project to be managed proactively, the project viability continuously to get evaluated based on the business targets and the progress should be measured by focusing on the delivery of products and not in the completion of the activities.<br>