Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification

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Get Started with Disciplined Agile

Begin your agile journey learning multiple agile approaches; understand how to use the Disciplined Agile tool kit and find your way of working (WoW). Comprehensive training introduces leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe^® and more that frees you from any single agile framework and opens your options.

With DASM training and certification, you will:

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  Understand the Disciplined Agile mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice and adapting to context.
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  Explore multiple leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more.
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  Learn about the fundamentals of agile and lean, and how to use both approaches effectively.
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  Understand how to put these strategies into action on your agile team and ensure effective implementation.
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  Learn how to apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the best way of working (WoW) for you and your agile team in your unique situation.
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  Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification exam. Your exam fee is included in tuition.

Requirements

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  No agile experience is required – this is introductory training and certification built to educate you on agile and lean fundamentals and the Disciplined Agile tool kit with skills to immediately apply what you have learned.
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  2-day training

What is Disciplined Agile?

Disciplined Agile is not a framework, but rather a toolkit that focuses on the decisions you need to consider, the options available to you, and the trade-offs associated with these options. It shows you how to effectively combine strategies from Scrum, Agile Modeling, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Agile Data, SAFe, and many other approaches in a tailorable and scalable manner. Organisations that adopt Disciplined Agile go to market sooner, deliver value faster and make their customers happier.

Course Agenda

Lesson 1: All About Agile
In this lesson, you’ll learn agile concepts and how to work with agile as a Disciplined Agile Scrum Master. After all, scrum is an agile methodology. Functionally, a DASM coordinates and facilitates agile “ceremonies,” or critical team events involved in developing a solution. A DASM also helps the team improve their processes by implementing Disciplined Agile, which is based on agile and lean.​


Lesson 2: Agile and Beyond
One of the most important aspects of being a DASM is leading your team through the agile journey: embracing the DA mindset, understanding DA’s central concepts, and acquainting yourself with the DA tool kit to customize your team’s way of working and optimize your processes. This lesson provides an overview. You’ll learn more about DA as you proceed through the training.


Lesson 3: Building and Supporting a Disciplined Agile Team

The primary focus of a DASM is their team. In this lesson, you’ll learn about Disciplined Agile teams, the characteristics of a leader, and how you can support your team so that they can be their best. This lesson will also introduce you to aspects of a team’s context that can impact how you form a team and evolve your way of working (WoW).

Lesson 4: Choosing your WoW

This lesson looks at business agility and how you, as a DASM, can guide your team through the agility journey. You’ll develop the skills to help your team choose a way of working (WoW) that aligns with their circumstances. Specifically, you’ll explore the different life cycles that DA supports and practice choosing the best-fit life cycle for a team.

Lesson 5: Tailoring your Practices (Inception Phase)

The agile journey continues. As a DASM, you’ll coach your team to improve your way of working at a process level. This lesson introduces you to process goals associated with the Inception phase and shows where to look for alternatives to some of the agile practices covered previously. You’ll try working with the DA took kit to select new strategies based on a team’s context.

Lesson 6: Tailoring your Practices (Construction Phase)

As a DASM, you’ll want to help your team tailor their way of working in every phase of your life cycle. This lesson covers the Construction phase, including lean concepts and tools that can help your team excel. You’ll use the DA tool kit to improve a team’s Construction phase processes.

Lesson 7: Tailoring your Practices (Transition Phase)

This lesson takes you to a new level in preparing to be a DASM. You’ll apply what you have learned to your own team by selecting a Transition phase process you’d like to improve and determining an option to try as part of your continuous improvement efforts.

Lesson 8: Tailoring your Practices (Ongoing)

DASMs look beyond phases at ways their teams can improve overall. This lesson explores ongoing process goals. You’ll look at lean concepts and tools your team can implement across the phases and explore ways for your team to continue learning and improving.

Lesson 9: Influence Outside the Team

Since Disciplined Agile is based on both agile and lean, a DASM should have a firm grasp of lean principles and how they function at a systems level. In this lesson, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how lean principles and tools impact the organization, which will inform your work with your team.