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Do you feel stuck with an agile framework? Would you like to find solutions to the problems you’ve been struggling with? Are you looking for ways to enhance your team’s agility?
 
Choose a way of working that fits your project’s context. Find strategies to improve your processes and strengthen your team with the Disciplined Agile tool kit.

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Disciplined Agile (DA)

 

Disciplined Agile from PMI, the world's number one and the biggest name in the field  of project management and with more than 50 years of existence, gives the freedom of choice to bring Business Agility for organization.
1. Disciplined Agile is a Tool-kit and not a framework.
2. It gives different options to adopt the best process for your organization.

DASM and DASSM Course Contents

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DASM

The learning outcome achieved after completion of this course are as follows.

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  • Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile Mindset

    • DA Principles, Promises, Guidelines

    • Describe how DA is an agnostic hybrid of approaches

  • Describe what business agility is and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile

  • Define the eight DA principles and how they are core to what sets Disciplined Agile apart from other agile frameworks

  • Determine which situations each of the DA life cycles is best applied

  • Apply the DA Practice of choosing a team’s way of working (WoW)

  • Describe the foundations of Agile

  • 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 (Lean principle “Respect people”)

  • Describe the inception phase and why it is important

  • Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context

  • Describe Agile techniques and ceremonies relevant to Inception

  • Describe the Construction phase and why it is important

  • Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context

  • Describe Agile techniques and ceremonies that take place during Construction

  • Explain how to Eliminate Waste and Build Quality In (Lean principles)

  • Explain how to Deliver Value Quickly (Lean principle)

  • Describe the Transition phase and why it is important.

  • Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context

  • Describe the Ongoing phase and why it is important.

  • Discuss how to use the DA tool kit to tailor your way of working within a select phase according to context

  • Explain how to Learn Pragmatically (Lean principle)

  • Explain the elements of the process blade (onion) diagram

  • List and define the principles of Lean

  • Recognize when to be resilient

DASSM

The learning outcome achieved after completion of this course are as follows.

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  • Speed up your ability to execute high-profile initiatives that are vital to the success of organizations.

  • Use Disciplined Agile toolkit to develop a complete understanding of the practices & strategies and the trade-offs of applying them.

  • Apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to guide your team in choosing your best way of working (WoW) in real-life situations.

  • Use the tool kit to address dynamic problems often found in production and operational teams, the value stream, and at the organisational level.

  • Design and implement metrics that measure your improvements in areas where your teams are struggling

  • Team Development for High-Performance Teams

  • Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Teams

  •  Business Agility and Tactical Scaling

  •  Optimizing How We Work With the Disciplined DevOps Layer

  • Lesson 5: Optimizing How We Work With the Value Stream Layer

  • Coordinating and Collaborating Across Teams

  • Conflict Management for High-Performance Teams

  •  Pragmatic Planning for Agile Teams

  •  Pragmatic Reporting and Metrics for Agile Teams

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Disciplined Agile (DA) Certification Roadmap

 

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The starting point in the  DA certification journey is the course on “Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)”. After completion of this course you are eligible for “DASSM” – Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM). This further enhances your knowledge and skill, and prepares you to be master in the Agile space. The next step in the certification journey is to attain the mastery in Disciplined Agile with Disciplined Agile Coach and Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant. These are the highest levels of Disciplined Agile Certification journey

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