Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)

Course description

The DASM certification equips you to successfully lead agile teams, thereby future-proofing your career in a world in which agile is fast becoming the way forward. The Disciplined Agile® tool kit includes hundreds of proven practices, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, and even some predictive approaches, and puts them into context.

By taking the course — and becoming DASM certified — you’ll understand how to customize your way of working to the approach that makes sense for the situation you face in your organization and industry.

Benefits:
During this course you will learn how to:

• Effectively prepare for the exam entitling to obtain the international certificate – DASM Exam
• Grasp the fundamentals of agile and lean, and how you can practically use both approaches to produce value for your teams.
• Explore multiple agile and lean techniques from methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe^®, and more.
• Understand how to put these techniques into practice and ensure successful agile implementation.
• Appreciate the DA™ mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice, and adapting to context.
• Learn how to apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the most effective way of working (WoW) for you, and your team in your unique situation.

Key features

Price of the course includes:

• 2-days course with a certified DASSM instructor
• licensed course materials
• voucher for Disciplined Agile^® Scrum Master (DASM) exam
• Disciplined Agile^® Scrum Master (DASM) certificate of course completion
• earn 14 PMI PDUs

Prerequisites:

None. This course is for people who are new to Agile. All are eligible to take this Disciplined Agile class and earn the DASM certification.

Working methods:

Multimedia presentations, group exercises and discussion, practical workshops, case study and practice tests.

Licensing and accreditation:

Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) is offered by Advised Skills Ltd which has been reviewed and approved by the PMI^® Authorized Training Partner Program”. Earners of the Authorized Training Partner Program badge are authorized by PMI to support the professional development needs of future or current PMI practitioners and stakeholders in their pursuit of PMI Credentials.

Who should attend?

Target group:
The following individuals will benefit from this course:

• New to Agile
• Familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean
• Wants to learn Agile methodology
• Wish to speed up their career in Agile
• Stakeholders who interacts with Agile projects in their business

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 processrelated 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 suport your team producing business value
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to suport your team releasing their work into production
• Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to suport your team on an ongoing basis
• Recognize when to be resilient
• List and define the principles of Lean

Course Agenda

1. All about Agile
2. Agile and beyond
3. Building and supporting a Disciplined Agile team
4. Choosing your way of working (WoW)
5. Initiating your team: Tailoring a fit-for-purpose WoW
6. Building a solution: Tailoring a fit-for-purpose WoW
7. Deploying your solution: Tailoring a fit-for-purpose WoW
8. Ensuring that your team improves, succeeds, and has fun doing so on an ongoing basis
9. Influence outside the team

Materials:

• Course Materials: An electronic version of the materials for your course, which can be viewed and annotated from a variety of platforms including computers and iPad/iOS, Android, and Windows tablets
• Student Resources: Additional resources to help you through the course
• Scrum Essentials: A supplemental document that shows how an agile/Scrum iteration (a spring) is planned and executed
• Possibility Download a free eBook of Choose your WoW

Location

Price information

Net price per person:
The training course net price per person includes the web-based exam available within the Pearson VUE Testing Centers account. The applicable price is shown in the course calendar.

Additional information:
14 contact hours/PDUs

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