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.
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 will 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.
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What You Will Learn
After the completion of this course, you will be able to:
Apply foundational agile and lean practices in your own team setting
Describe what business agility is and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile®
Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile mindset
Define the DA™ principles, promises, and guidelines and how they set Disciplined Agile apart from other frameworks
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 using the Lean principle of 'respect people'
Analyze your team's context to make better process-related decisions
Select the best-fit DA life cycles for your teams
Apply the five DA steps of choosing your team's way of working (WoW)
Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to successfully initiate your team
Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team producing business value
Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team releasing their work into production
Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team on an ongoing basis
Recognize when to be resilient
List and define the principles of Lean
Significance of the Disciplined Agile® Mindset
Business agility and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile
Eight DA principles and how they are core to what sets Disciplined Agile apart from other agile frameworks
Which situations each of the DA™ life cycles is best applied
DA Practice of choosing a team's way of working (WoW)
Foundations of Agile
How people are organized into DA teams
Primary DA roles and how they each are key to the success of a self-organizing agile team
Help your team work well together (Lean principle 'Respect people')
Inception phase and why it is important
DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context
Agile techniques and ceremonies relevant to Inception
Construction phase and why it is important
Agile techniques and ceremonies that take place during Construction
Eliminate Waste and Build Quality (Lean principles)
Deliver Value Quickly (Lean principle)
Transition phase and why it is important
Ongoing phase and why it is important
Learn Pragmatically (Lean principle)
Elements of the process blade (onion) diagram
Principles of Lean
When to be resilient
Benefits of explicit workflow
Kaizen loops and PDSA techniques for continuous improvement
Options for cross-team learning: "community of practice" and "center of excellence"