Virtual Live Instructor: 4 – 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.

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.

Who should attend

This workshop is for people who are:

New to agile

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Who have taken some agile training in the past but may not have had the opportunity to apply what they’ve learned in practice

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Who wish to hone their Scrum Master skill so as to lead a team in an enterprise setting

Agenda

Day 1: Disciplined Agile Foundations of Agile

Day 2: Disciplined Agile Foundations of Lean

Day 3: Foundations of Disciplined Agile

Day 4: Choosing Your WoW (Way of Working)

Learning Objectives

Foundations of Agile:

• Apply an iterative way of working inside your team

• Describe the artifacts, roles and ceremonies of an iterative way of working

• Utilize a work board and information radiator

• Write user stories and estimate them

• Gather requirements in a collaborative way

Foundations of Lean:

• Learn the foundations of Lean: the attention to structure, time, and education

• Learn the principles of Lean

• Learn the time aspect of Lean

• Conduct a value stream mapping exercise

• Learn what an effective organization’s value stream looks like

• Discuss the role of management and their effect on culture

• Describe how to use plan-do-study-act (PDSA) for continuous improvement

Foundations of Disciplined Agile:

• Discover the basic elements and scope of Disciplined Agile

• Understand the full range of business agility

• Learn how to organize people into agile teams

• Understand where you fit into an agile team or organization; organize the flow of work within a team and across teams

• See how teams can work differently yet still be governed consistently

Choosing Your WoW (Way of Working):

• Demonstrate how to lead your team through a tailoring workshop to identify their initial way of working (WoW)

• Select the best-fit lifecycle for your team

• Choose the Disciplined Agile goal diagrams that are most relevant to your team’s situation

• Apply the relevant goal diagrams to identify techniques and practices that are most likely to work in your team’s context

• Improve retrospectives by using tools from Disciplined Agile to identify techniques that will more accurately address your current challenges

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 (28): see how to claim PMI PDU’s