Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)

Description

The course is based on the
Choose your WoW A Disciplined Agile Delivery
Handbook. It will look at concepts such as
eliminating waste, cost of delay, quality, rapid
feedback and response, and the role of
management. It also covers all aspects of
Disciplined Agile. The training provides the
tools and strategies to help you lead an agile
team, influence people, and find solutions to
delivery challenges quickly.

Day 1 - Disciplined Agile Foundations
□ The Disciplined Agile Mindset
o The seven principles of DA
o The Disciplined Agile Manifesto
□ Overview of Disciplined Agile
o Layers of organisational agility
o Lifecycles – Team and value stream
(DA FLEX)
o Goal diagrams – How to read and
how to use
o Complex adaptive systems
□ People and Teams
o Roles and responsibilities
o Team structures
□ Team Agility
o Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
o Agile business teams
o Agile service teams
□ Organisational agility
o Value streams
o Disciplined DevOps
o Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)
o Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
o 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

Aim

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

Participant requirements

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.

Participant

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.