Course Description

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.

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 two 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.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile Mindset

• 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