Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) Course

This Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) instructor-led training course shows you how to use Disciplined Agile (DA) to improve your team’s way of working. In just two days, you’ll become familiar with the foundational agile and lean practices that DA supports, practice using the tool kit to solve problems and learn how to build high-performance teams.

Filled with activities, thoughtful discussions, instructor guidance, and more, this course will prepare you to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master exam and, equally important, start using Disciplined Agile immediately.

Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) Course Benefits

• In this DASM course, you will learn how to:

  • Understand the Disciplined Agile mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice, and adapting to context.
  • Learn about the fundamentals of agile and lean and how to use both approaches to produce business value.
  • Explore multiple agile and lean techniques from methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, and more.
  • Understand how to put these techniques into action and ensure effective implementation.
  • Learn how to apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the best way of working (WoW) for you and your team in your unique situation.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

• Recommended Experience

  While there is no formal prerequisite for this DASM course, familiarity with common agile concepts and terminology will help you to get the most value out of your DASM training experience.

  While this DASM course would benefit Project/Program Managers, Agilists, and DevOps Practitioners, to name a few, the skills learned are valuable to any team member. No agile experience is required.

• Certification Information

  Attendees must be present (either virtually or in-person) for the entire course duration to receive certification candidacy.

  The DASM exams are administered through Pearson VUE. Each exam is an online, non-proctored test including 50 multiple-choice questions. The total exam appointment is 120 minutes (about 2 hours): 30 minutes for the introduction, tutorial, and survey and 90 minutes (about 1 and a half hours) for completing the exam.

DASM Training Outline

Module 1: All About Agile

What Is Agile?

The Agile Manifesto

How Does Agile Work?

• The Iterative Process
• Planning an Iteration
• Agile Ceremonies and Artifacts
• User Stories
• Iteration Demonstration

Information Radiators

Module 2: Agile and Beyond

Agile Is Showing Its Age

What Is Disciplined Agile?

The Disciplined Agile Mindset

What is Guided Continuous Improvement?

Disciplined Agile People

Disciplined Agile Flow

Disciplined Agile Practices

How DA Works

Module 3: Building and Supporting a Disciplined Agile Team

Disciplined Agile People

• Roles on DA teams

Team Lead

• The DASM
• Leader Qualities
• Supporting the Team

Types of Teams

Team Context and Scaling Factors

Module 4: Choosing Your WoW!

What is business agility?

What is a complex adaptive system?

Why do we want to be able to choose our team's way of working?

What are the Disciplined Agile life cycles?

How do you choose your way of working?

Module 5: Tailoring Your Practices: Inception Phase

DA Phases

DA Process Goals

Agile Practices: Plan the Release (Agile life cycle)

Choices in the Inception Phase

Module 6: Tailoring Your Practices: Construction Phase

DA Construction Phase

DA Construction Process Goals

Agile Practices (Agile life cycle)

Lean Tips

• Deliver Value Quickly
• Visualize the Value Stream
• Deliver Incrementally
• Ensure Value by Building Quality In
• Use Pull Systems and Kanban Boards

Choices in the Construction Phase

Module 7: Tailoring Your Practices: Transition Phase

The Transition phase

Transition phase process goals

Choosing a process goal, a decision point, and an option

Module 8: Tailoring Your Practices: Ongoing

Understanding Ongoing Process Goals

Ongoing Lean practices

• Standard Work
• Explicit Workflow Policies
• Guided Continuous Improvement

How does an agile organization support cross-team learning?

• Communities of Practice
• Centers of Excellence

Module 9: Influence Outside the Team

What Is Lean?

• Lean principles
• Lean Incorporates Systems Thinking

Lean Knowledge Work vs. Manufacturing

Lean Resiliency