Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM) 2-day training and certification

In these challenging and unique market conditions, adaptability will be the key to relevance, both for businesses and professionals. Now more than ever is the time to upskill yourself, and differentiate the value you bring.

Process Mentors has a passion for helping individuals and organizations understand what their options are, and which ones work in different contexts leads to better decisions. We firmly believe that agility is the new currency of business.

For true business agility, we need to choose our own agile way of working optimizing for our unique situation. Every team is different and faces unique situations. Disciplined Agile (DA) is a toolkit that enables us to make better decisions inside our organizations and enables optimization of agile teams by choosing our own way of working.

As a team leader you strive to be more agile and help your team be more productive. To succeed, you need an agile mindset, combined with leadership and team management skills. At the same time need to do so within the context of your organization and its culture.

The new Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM) training and certification provides tools and strategies to help you lead an agile team, influence people, and remove impediments. Using real-world agile strategies, you will learn how to tailor your team’s Way of Working (WoW) to optimize productivity and continuously improve.

Please Note: An email from the instructor will be sent the day before the course that contains the schedule, student workshop manual (.pdf) and the link to the Zoom meeting. The email address that will be used is: jbarnes@processmentors.com. You may need to check your spam folder or if you use rules to direct your incoming mail to specific folders.

Day One July 10th: Foundations of Disciplined Agile

The Disciplined Agile Mindset

a. The seven principles of DA

b. The Disciplined Agile Manifesto

Overview of Disciplined Agile

a. Layers of organizational agility

b. Lifecycles – Team and value stream (DA FLEX)

c. Goal diagrams – How to read and how to use

d. Complex adaptive systems

People and Teams

a. Roles and responsibilities

b. Team structures

Team Agility

a. Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

b. Agile business teams

c. Agile service teams

Organizational Agility

a. Value streams

b. Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)

c. Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)

d. Disciplined DevOps

e. Disciplined Agile FLEX

Lean Governance

Day Two July 13th: Choosing Your Way of Working (WoW)

WoW: Choosing Your Way of Working (WoW)

DA Principles: 7 principles of DA and complex adaptive systems (CAS)

5-Steps: five steps to choosing your team’s way of working (WoW)

a. What is the context faced by your team?

b. Choosing the best-fit lifecycle

c. Understanding, selecting, and applying process goals in your team’s context

d. Laying out your team’s initial way of working (WoW)

e. Disciplined retrospectives and Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI)

f. Tracking and measuring process improvement effectiveness