Disciplined Agile Scrum Master
(For professionals new to agile)
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.
Course Format: Lecture with discussions and workshops
Length of Course: 2 days
Audience:
This course is for people who are:
- New to agile or who have taken some agile training in the past but may not have had the opportunity to apply what they have learned in practice
- Wanting to hone their Scrum Master skill to lead a team in an enterprise setting
Benefits:
- One free attempt of the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master certification exam when taken within 30 days of the course end date
- After passing the DASM exam, attendees earn the designation of DASM
- PMI PDUs offered: 14 Technical category
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
