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.

The Disciplined Agile Scrum Master course 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.

This course is taught using the official PMI-provided course materials and all participants will have access to write the online PMI DASM certification exam for 30 days following the completion of the course. There is no extra fee for this exam: it is included in the cost of the course registration.

Learning Objectives

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Apply foundational agile and lean practices in their own team settings.
• 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 agile 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 teams work well together using the Lean principle of “Respect people.”
• Analyze a team’s context to make better processrelated decisions.
• Select the best-fit DA life cycles for individual teams.
• Apply the five DA steps of choosing a team's way of working (WoW).
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to successfully initiate a team.
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support a team producing business value.
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support a team releasing their work into production.
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support a team on an ongoing basis.
• Recognize when to be resilient.
• List and define the principles of Lean.
   

Who Should Attend

This course is appropriate for individuals who are going to be leading agile teams in the role of project manager, scrum master, or team lead.

Prerequisite

There is no prerequisite for this course. It functions as a stand-alone course.
 

Materials

Participants will receive a student workbook containing copies of the presentation materials, handouts, and other supplemental materials. An electronic version of the Choose Your WoW! book is included in the course course price (hardcopies are available through Amazon).