Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master for Professionals

Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master for Professionals New to Agile

When we start adopting an Agile way of working, reality quickly proves to be much more complex than expected. Do you need to employ concepts such as eliminating waste, cost of delay, quality, rapid feedback and response, and the role of management? Would you like to understand all aspects of Disciplined Agile, including its conceptual basis, how it is organized, roles and team structures, and its overall scope?

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, you need to do so within the context of your organization and its culture. The Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master (DALSM) training and certification provides tools and strategies to help you lead an agile team, influence people, remove impediments and to tailor your team’s way of working (WoW) so it matches and reflects the unique situation of your unique team.

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be prepared to begin your Disciplined Agile certification journey.

This DALSM Certification means you:

• Are experienced leading Agile Teams
• Are starting to coach others
• Have the potential to be a “junior coach” under the guidance of a senior coach

About Disciplined Agile (DA)

Disciplined Agile (DA) is a process-decision toolkit that provides straightforward guidance to help people, teams, and organizations to streamline their processes in a context-sensitive manner.

DA provides a solid foundation for business agility by showing how the various activities such as Solution Delivery (software development), IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Security, Finance, Procurement and many others work together. DA also describes what these activities should address, provides a range of options for doing so, and describes the trade-offs associated with each option.

DA is architected into four views:

• Mindset: Builds on the foundations of agile and Lean to address enterprise realities
• People: Roles, responsibilities, and team structures
• Flow: This captures the dynamic aspects of processes via lifecycle diagrams and workflow diagrams
• Practices: This captures detailed strategies / techniques that are put into context via process goal diagrams

About the Program

This training is made up of the following modules:

• Disciplined Agile Foundations of Agile
• Disciplined Agile Foundations of Lean
• Foundations of Disciplined Agile
• Choosing Your Way of Working (WoW)

Choose Your WoW!: A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW) will be provided if you have not attended a prior DA course. This workshop includes one free attempt of the Disciplined Agile Certification Test when taken within 30 days of the course end date.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is for people who are:

• New to agile - or -
• Who have taken some agile training in the past but may not have had the opportunity to apply what they’ve learned in practice - or -
• Who wish to hone their Scrum Master skill so as to lead a team in an enterprise setting

Overview

I. Foundations of Agile

Learning Objectives

• 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
• Course Overview
• The big agile picture
• Planning the first iteration
• Running the first iteration
• Information radiators
• Agile team roles
• Agile ceremonies
• Demonstration and retrospective of the first iteration Planning the second iteration
• Running the second iteration
• User stories and estimation
• Test-first approach
• Dealing with change
• Demonstration of second iteration
• Retrospective of the module

II. Foundations of Lean

Learning Objectives

• 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

Course Overview

• What Lean is and what it is not
• Value: understanding the value of the products and services we provide
• The value stream: understanding how we provide this value
• Flow: understanding how our work is done most effectively
• Pull: understanding a different way of managing work
• Perfection: we strive for perfection, not so much to achieve it but to continuously improve

III. Foundations of Disciplined Agile

Learning Objectives

• 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

Course Overview

• The Disciplined Agile Mindset
• The seven principles of DA
• The Disciplined Agile Manifesto
• Overview of Disciplined Agile
• Layers of organizational 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
• Organizational agility
• Value streams
• Disciplined DevOps
• Disciplined Agile IT (DAIT)
• Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
• Disciplined Agile FLEX
• Lean Governance

IV. Choosing Your WoWTM (Way of Working)

Learning Objectives

• 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

Course Overview

• Getting started
• DA principles and complex adaptive systems (CAS)
• Five steps to choosing your team’s way of working (WoW)
• Analyze 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
• Wrap up