Usually the first step in deciding the team's way of working is to:

In the Disciplined Agile (DA) Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI) cycle, the very first activity is to “understand (analyze) your context.” Only after the team understands its situation does it proceed to select initial practices for its way of working (WoW).

A. “Connect the dots” is not a named GCI step and follows contextual analysis.
C. Selecting practices (“initial choices”) is the second step, not the first.
D. A coach may facilitate, but “setting the stage” is not the first formal step in GCI.

1. Ambler, S. & Lines, M. Choose Your WoW!, 2nd ed., PMI, 2020, Section 2.3, pp. 38-39 (“1-Understand your context”).

2. PMI, DASSM Instructor Guide v1.1, Module 2, p. 18 (“GCI cycle—start by analyzing context”).