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JUST RELEASED! Virtual Live Instructor: NEW 2-Day Agile and Lean Boot Camp & 2-Day Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Training and Certification by Joshua Barnes & Glen Little
January 12, 2021 @ 9:00 am - January 15, 2021 @ 5:15 pm EST
Process Mentors is pleased to offer the NEW and EXCLUSIVE Agile and Lean Boot Camp in conjunction with the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master Workshop!
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.
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.
Agile and Lean Boot Camp
Process Mentors is excited to release an EXCLUSIVE Boot Camp for those seeking to understand the insights and fundamentals of Agile and Lean! No prior knowledge, experience or certifications required.
Teams that embrace an agile mindset possess the ability to rapidly adapt to customer feedback and market and environmental changes in productive and swift ways. Understanding agile and lean principles empower them to ensure their way of working is fit for purpose. This boot camp brings fundamentals to life.
Practical 2-day immersive and interactive boot camp covers Agile and Lean principles, practices, and techniques. Its focus is on anyone seeking to expand their knowledge about agile ways of working, including Iterative/Scrum and Lean/Kanban. The learnings are not just for software development; the course will also demonstrate non-software development’s applicability.
Learners will find a balance between courseware content and collaborative exercises, spending a significant portion of the boot camp, applying the learnings in a working simulation filled with activities. Exercises are within a virtual collaboration canvas, and attendees receive a pdf of the outputs as a takeaway.
In addition, if you are new to Agile and Lean and are interested in the PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) course and certification, this boot camp provides you with the insights and fundamentals to be successful!
Learning Objectives
- Overview Agile and Lean origins
- Understand basic agile terminology
- Recognize the agile mindset
- Define an agile way of working
- Identify inhibitors that impact agile teams
- Compare differences between Iterative/Scrum vs. Lean/Kanban
- Execute simulation using an Iterative/Scrum way of working
- Recognize differences in simulation if applying to non-software work
- Recognize differences in simulation if applying Lean/Kanban
PMI- Agile Certification Journey
Meet four Disciplined Agile Certifications that join PMI Agile Certified Practioner (PMI-ACP)® to create a comprehensive suite of agile training and certifications that extends beyond any single agile approach. And aligns with every stage in your career. Welcome to Agile reimagined.
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.
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Disciplined Agile Scrum Master Workshop
JUST RELEASED! The new Disciplined Agile Scrum Master training and certification provides tools and strategies to help you lead an agile team, influence people, and remove impediments.
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 that introduces leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more that frees you from any single agile framework and opens your options.
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
With DASM training and certification, you will:
- Explore multiple leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more.
- Understand how to put these practices into action on your agile team and ensure effective implementation.
- Know how to use the Disciplined Agile tool kit and discover the best way of working (WoW) for you and your agile team in the situation you currently face.
- Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification exam. Your exam fee is included in tuition.
- 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.
Benefits
Agile and Lean Boot Camp
- Provides you with the insights and fundamentals to be successful!
- Certificate of Achievement for attending the workshop
- As a benefit of completing the Agile and Lean Boot Camp, you can claim 14 Technical PDU’s in your PMI membership profile
Disciplined Agile Scrum Master Workshop
- Includes one free attempt to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification exam online. You will have 30 days to take the exam after your training is complete. DASM Certification is granted after you pass the exam.
- Certificate of Achievement for attending the workshop
- As a benefit of completing the DASM workshop, you can claim 7 Technical and 7 Leadership PDU’s in your PMI membership profile.
Instructor: Joshua Barnes
Joshua Barnes is the Founder of Process Mentors, Inc, a PMI Disciplined Agile Partner. Our core focus is training, assessments and coaching services. Joshua is a Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor (CDAI) as well as Certified Disciplined Agile Coach (CDAC) and 1 of 8 people in the world, selected to train other PMI Disciplined Agile Instructors (DAIT). He is a recognized leader in virtual training and coaching and has trained thousands of people, in both co-located as well as virtual live formats on their Disciplined Agile journey. One of Joshua’s personal goals is to support the growth of the PMI Disciplined Agile community.
Instructor: Glen Little
Glen Little is one of the most senior and experienced instructors and coaches of Process Mentors, Inc., a PMI Disciplined Agile Adoption Partner. Glen is a Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor (CDAI), Certified Disciplined Agile Coach (CDAC) as well as a Disciplined Agile Training Instructor (DAIT), 1 of 8 people in the world, selected to train other PMI Disciplined Agile Instructors. Glen is also 1 of only 4 Disciplined Agile Fellows in the world. He is a recognized leader in virtual training and coaching and has trained thousands of people, in both co-located as well as virtual live formats on their Disciplined Agile journey.
Date Offerings:
You have the options from the following:
- 2 Day Agile and Lean Boot Camp January 12-13 with Joshua Barnes
- 2 Day Disciplined Agile Scrum Master January 14-15 with Glen Little
- 4 Day Agile and Lean Boot Camp & Disciplined Agile Scrum Master January 12-13-14-15
Workshop Logistics
Video Conferencing: Zoom video conferencing with real-time messaging and content sharing will be used. Workshop exercises will use a virtual collaboration platform.
Workshop day will begin at 9:00 am and finish no later than 5:15 pm ET Time
Please Note: An email from admin will be sent before the course that contains the schedule, student access to workshop materials and PDF’s and the link to the Zoom meeting. The email address that will be used is training@processmentors.com.You may need to check your spam folder or if you use rules to direct your incoming mail to specific folders.
*Tickets are non-refundable if the registrant cancels, however they are fully transferable to another attendee.
We require a minimum of 4 registrations for this workshop. If the minimum number is not met, the workshop will be cancelled. Registrants will be contacted and registrations will be offered to be moved to the next scheduled workshop or registrant will receive a refund.
