DASM Course Description
Is your team treading water using a 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
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 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 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
When to Apply
Apply if you have 0-3 years of agile experience
Value
Get started with Disciplined Agile. Disciplined Agile is a tool kit that focuses on the decisions one needs to consider, the options available, and the associated trade-offs. Explore multiple agile and lean techniques and understand how to put these techniques into action and effective implementation.
Education Requirements
- 2-day DASM™ Live Online / Self-Paced Elearning training from a Disciplined Agile™ partner
- No formal education required
Experience Requirements
None
Certification Maintenance Requirements
Must earn 7 PDUs in agile topics per one-year cycle to maintain certification.
Exam Information
90 minutes, 50 questions, multiple choice, online, non-proctored
Sample Certificate:
