Virtual Live Instructor: 3 – Day Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM) training by Glen Little, DAIT, CDAC/CDAI, DA Fellow

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.

Day One: Foundations of Lean

Lean: what lean is and what it is not

Value: understanding the value of the products and services we provide

The value stream: understanding how we provide this value

Flow: understanding how our work is done most effectively

Pull: understanding a different way of managing work

Perfection: we strive for perfection, not so much to achieve it but to continuously improve

Day Two: 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 Three: 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

Benefits

• Workshop attendees will be registered on Disciplined Agile Consortium to receive DA communications, engage with the DA community and track their certification progress.
• Includes one free attempt of the Disciplined Agile certification test when taken within 30 days of the course end date
• Technical (21): see how to claim PMI PDU’s