Tailor Your Approach and Lead Your Team with Disciplined Agile.
Disciplined Agile is a powerful toolkit to equip you with the decisions, options and trade-offs to customize your way of working (WoW) for success. Combining various strategies from popular agile approaches including Scrum and Kanban in an adaptable scalable manner can make all the difference as organizations seek faster product delivery while ensuring customer satisfaction.
Accelerate your ability to take on more complex initiatives and lead your agile team using Disciplined Agile. Choose, scale and tailor your way of working (WoW) to achieve agile success in any situation with the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification.
Get certified as a DASSM to exhibit full mastery of this toolkit; enabling agility successes every time.
Overview
Extend Agile beyond a single approach: Because true agility comes from freedom, not frameworks.
Do you want to learn how to successfully lead one, or perhaps several agile teams? Are you looking to accelerate your ability to manage high-profile initiatives that are critical to enterprise success? Do you want to take business agility to the next level by applying agile and lean techniques in a wide range of situations, including non-software teams?
Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) teaches experienced agile practitioners how to use the Disciplined Agile (DA™) tool kit to optimize how teams work, work with allies within their organization, and solve a variety of advanced problems. This 14 PDU course will prepare you to take the DASSM exam and start using Disciplined Agile immediately within your leadership role.
Skills Covered
- Take a deep dive into the DA tool kit to develop a comprehensive understanding of the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains and the trade-offs of applying them.
- Learn how to apply the DA tool kit to guide your teams in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in any situation.
- Use the DA tool kit to solve complex challenges commonly encountered in both software and operational business teams.
- Learn how to lead agile teams through key enterprise activities, such as planning, coordinating, and reporting, and be ready to show your improvements in areas where your organization is struggling.
- Understand how to improve value delivery for your customers by empowering others in your organization, nurturing emotional intelligence, and resolving conflicts.
Prerequisites
- Two years of experience working in an agile team, ideally in a leadership role such as Disciplined Agile scrum master, scrum master, product owner, or architecture owner.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of the DA tool kit by having done one or more of the following:
- Taken the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) course
- Taken The Basics of Disciplined Agile online course
- Read section 1, or more, of Choose Your WoW—Complementary digital copy included with DASSM
- To determine if you’re ready, you can take our quick Disciplined Agile Knowledge Check. If you score 75% or more you’re ready. If you score less, consider taking the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) certification course.
Target Audience
This DASSM is designed for individuals who:
- Acknowledge Disciplined Agile for their teams and want to get a better understanding to scale agile across the organization
- Understand the fundamentals of Agile and Lean and better yet have practical experience of applying them
- Are experienced with Agile and who would like to move their career to next level
Module 1: Team Development For High-Performance
- Four stages of team development (Bruce Tuckman)
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
- Decision-making methods for teams
Module 2: Emotional Development For High-Performance Team
- What is emotional intelligence?
- Why is it essential to team performance?
- Intelligence Quotient (IQ) versus Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- What are the quadrants that make up emotional intelligence?
- How does psychological safety foster team performance?
- Building emotional intelligence
Module 3: Business agility and Tactical Scaling
- Business agility
- How functional areas can leverage agile and lean practices
- Strategic scaling vs. tactical scaling
- Tactical scaling factors
- How scaling factors impact process goals
Module 4: Optimize with how we work with Disciplined Devops layer
- The purpose and scope of the Disciplined DevOps layer of the DA tool kit
- How to use the DA tool kit to optimize how a team works with the Disciplined DevOps layer
- How use the Disciplined Agile tool kit to identify and help resolve challenges teams face in the Disciplined DevOps layer
- The test-first method
Module 5: Optimize How we work with the value stream layer
- Value streams
- Value stream layer
- Using the value stream
- DA tool kit
- MBIs and MVPs
- Portfolio management
- Using the DA tool kit
Module 6: Coordinating and Collaborating Across Teams
- Teams, flow and value realization
- Coordinate Activities process goal and decision points
- Exploring options
- Improving the value realization structure of teams
- Activity: Using the DA tool kit to coordinate activities
Module 7: Conflict Management For High-Performance Teams
- Healthy and unhealthy conflict
- Recognizing the need for healthy conflict
- Understanding the levels of conflict
- Taking steps to protect yourself and your team
- Problem-solving steps
Module 8: Paramagtic Plannig For Agile Teams
- Planning
- Agile modelling
- Sufficient planning
- Dependencies
- Gantt charts
- Release planning
- Improving planning
Module 9: Pramagtic Reporting and Metrics For Agile Teams
- Understanding metrics
- How teams approach metrics
- How organizations approach metrics
- Effective ways to measure and report
- Use the DA tool kit to solve measurement and reporting challenges
- How to choose and design the metrics you need
Exam & Certification
Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master.
The Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification by Project Management Institute equips you to lead agile teams by delving deeper into the Disciplined Agile toolkit, which includes proven practices and approaches. With the DASSM certification, an individual will understand how to customize their team’s way of working optimizing their approach for the situation faced in the organization and industry.
The DASSM certification is open to individuals who have a fundamental understanding of the DA Toolkit and who have at least 2 years of Agile experience. Candidates must complete the workshop prior to taking the exam. The DASSM course may be taken in an instructor-led virtual workshop through a PMI Authorized Training Provider (ATP), or by self-paced online course.
Upon completing the DASSM course, candidates become eligible to take the DASSM certification exam.
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