About the Topic:

Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master is a hybrid framework that leverages the proven strategies from several sources, providing a decision framework to guide your adoption and tailoring of them in a context-driven manner. DALSM helps to deliver solutions incrementally by being aware of the enterprise. One who adopts Agile governance strategies can streamline inception and transition efforts in the organization. Our training offers tools and techniques to help you lead an Agile team, impact people and eliminate impediments. You will understand the value of individuals and interactions over processes and tools, consumable solutions over comprehensive documentation, stakeholder collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan. Using Agile techniques from the real world, you’ll learn how to adapt the Way of Working (WoW) of your team to maximize efficiency and continually improve it.

We offer four virtual sessions for two days and each session is three hours and half hour long. The course is designed specifically for busy professionals who are all packed up in working hours. Upon successful completion of the course, professionals will receive the eligibility for the certification of Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM).

What you will learn

Within the two days of Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master training, you’ll learn:

• How to create the environment within which value flow can be achieved.

• How to determine what steps are needed to support business agility and what is required to do in your company.

• How to identify tailored solutions that address the common organizational and management needs that still exist even when you are Agile.

• How to choose the appropriate practices and techniques in your working environment to continuously improve your WoW.

• How to apply Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices to your team.

Agenda

Day One: 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

f. Lean Governance

Day Two: 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

Designation can be achieved

After passing the Disciplined Agile Certification Test you will be awarded the Certified Disciplined Agilist (CDA) designation. Based on your experience with agile teams, you may apply for the following designations:

• with PMI-ACP or references for a minimum 2 years agile team experience – Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner (CDAP)

• With references for a minimum 2 years agile team lead experience – Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM)

Benefits

• Participants earn the designation of Disciplined Agilist with a free first-year Attendees earn the designation of Disciplined Agilist, with free first year membership and full benefits, a $50 US value

• One free attempt of the Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master certification test when taken within 30 days of the course end date

Instructor: Dr Krishna Kumar T I, CDA, DALSM

Dr Krishna Kumar is a DALSM certified trainer, having 20 years of experience in IT industry serving multiple Multinational companies. He is coaching organisations and teaching people about agile and lean ways of work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnakumarti/