Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)

Is your team treading water using waterfall? Do you feel trapped in an agile framework? Would you like to find solutions to the problems you’ve been wrestling with? Are you looking for ways to enhance your team’s agility?
Break free from your old ways by choosing a way of working that fits your team’s context. Find strategies to improve your processes and strengthen your team with the Disciplined Agile tool kit.

Course Summary

Disciplined Agile Scrum Master is a nine-lesson, instructor-led course that shows you how to use Disciplined Agile (DA) to improve your team’s way of working. In just 3 half-days, you’ll become familiar with foundational agile and lean practices that DA supports, practice using the tool kit to solve problems, and learn how to build high-performance teams. Filled with activities, animations, supplemental reading, and more, this course will prepare you to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) exam and, equally important, start using Disciplined Agile immediately.

Benefits

• One Free Certification Exam voucher ($150 USD value) to be taken within 30 days of course completion.
• Earn 14 PDUs, eligible in Technical (7) and Leadership (7) categories

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for people who are:

• New to Agile, Lean, and Disciplined Agile
• Who may have heard about Agile, Lean, and Disciplined Agile (DA) but have not taken any training in the past and want to learn to practice DA
• Want to hone their Team Lead skills to the next level
• Want to advance their career and get certified in Disciplined Agile

Key Learning Outcomes

• Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile Mindset
  • DA Principles, Promises, Guidelines
  • Describe how DA is an agnostic hybrid of approaches
• Describe what business agility is and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile
• Define the eight DA principles and how they are core to what sets Disciplined Agile apart from other agile frameworks
• Determine which situations each of the DA life cycles is best applied
• Apply the DA Practice of choosing a team’s way of working (WoW)
• Describe the foundations of Agile
• Explain how people are organized into DA teams
• Define the primary DA roles and how they each are key to the success of a self-organizing agile team
• Explain how to help your team work well together (Lean principle “Respect people”)
• Describe the inception phase and why it is important
• Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context
• Describe Agile techniques and ceremonies relevant to Inception
• Describe the Construction phase and why it is important
• Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context
• Describe Agile techniques and ceremonies that take place during Construction
• Explain how to Eliminate Waste and Build Quality In (Lean principles)
• Explain how to Deliver Value Quickly (Lean principle)
• Describe the Transition phase and why it is important.
• Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context
• Describe the Ongoing phase and why it is important.
• Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context
• Explain how to Learn Pragmatically (Lean principle)
• Explain the elements of the process blade (onion) diagram
• List and define the principles of Lean
• Recognize when to be resilient

Prerequisites

• Prior to workshop, students must purchase or have a copy of the book Choose You WoW!: A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW) by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines.  If you are a PMI member, you can download a free e-copy.
• Computer with video and audio capabilities and high speed internet connection.

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