Certified Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)

After completing this course, you should:

• discover the elements and scope of Disciplined Agile and understand the full range of business agility,
• learn how to organise people into agile teams and understand where you fit into an agile team or organisation,
• organise the flow of work within a team and across teams and learn how teams can work differently yet still be governed consistently.
• learn 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 and choose the Disciplined Agile goal diagrams that are most relevant to your team’s situation

Day 1 - Disciplined Agile Foundations

□   The Disciplined Agile Mindset

• The seven principles of DA
• The Disciplined Agile Manifesto

□   Overview of Disciplined Agile

• Layers of organisational agility
• Lifecycles – Team and value stream (DA FLEX)
• Goal diagrams – How to read and how to use
• Complex adaptive systems

□   People and Teams

• Roles and responsibilities
• Team structures

□   Team Agility

• Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
• Agile business teams
• Agile service teams

□   Organisational agility

• Value streams
• Disciplined DevOps
• Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)
• Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
• Disciplined Agile FLEX

□   Lean Governance

Day 2 - Choosing Your WoW (Way of Working )

□   Getting started and familiar with the Process Tool

□   DA principles and complex adaptive systems (CAS)

□   Five steps to choosing your team’s way of working (WoW)

□   Analyse the context

□   Select best-fit lifecycle

□   Connect the dots

□   Make some choices

□   Guided continuous improvement

□   Working through scenario 1 using the five steps of choosing your team’s WoW

□   Working through scenario 2 using the five steps of choosing your team’s WoW

Familiarity with the Agile Manifesto and Agile projects would be helpful. Therefore, prior completion of a course such as the ICAgile Certified Agile Fundamentals or the Certified Disciplined Agile Scrum Master would be recommended.

This Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master is appropriate for Leaders who are considering DA for their teams and want to get a better understanding of an agnostic agile approach to scaling agile across the business. Anyone who needs to lead an Agile or Lean team in an enterprise environment should think of this course.