Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Certification
Maximize your potential as an Agile leader with Skillet 2-day Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification training. This advanced program is designed to elevate your skills and position you for success as you lead Agile teams and tackle complex initiatives. Master the Agile mindset and adopt Scrum and Lean approaches with the DA toolkit, and choose the Way of Working that delivers the best results for your organization. Enroll now and take your Agile leadership to the next level!
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About this course
Enroll for the 2-day Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) training course. DASSM is an advanced Agile program to help you lead teams and tackle complex initiatives. Master the agile mindset and adopt Scrum and Lean approaches using the DA toolkit for a personalized WoW and better outcomes.
Who should attend?
- Leadership roles
- Scrum Master professionals
- Product Owners
- Individuals with Disciplined Agile Scrum Master certification
- Those with a basic understanding of Agile and Lean -Individuals looking to expand their knowledge of the Agile methodology.
Learning Outcome
- Take a deep dive into the DA tool kit to develop a comprehensive understanding of the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains and the trade-offs of applying them.
- Learn how to apply the DA tool kit to guide your teams in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in any situation.
- Use the DA tool kit to solve complex challenges commonly encountered in both software and operational business teams.
- Learn how to lead agile teams through key enterprise activities, such as planning, coordinating, and reporting, and be ready to show your improvements in areas where your organization is struggling.
- Understand how to improve value delivery for your customers by empowering others in your organization, nurturing emotional intelligence, and resolving conflicts.
Course Content
Module 1: Team development for high-performance teams
- Understanding team development
- Three issues of team performance
- Four stages of team development
- Decision-making methods for teams
Module 2: Tactical scaling in complex situations
- Enterprise agility
- How functional areas can leverage agile and lean practices
- Strategic scaling versus tactical scaling
- Tactical scaling factors
- How scaling factors impact process goals
Module 3: Optimizing how we work within a DevOps environment
- The purpose and scope of the Disciplined DevOps layer of the DA tool kit
- How to use the DA tool kit to optimize how a team works with the Disciplined DevOps layer
- How to use the DA tool kit to identify and help resolve challenges teams face in the Disciplined DevOps layer
- The test-first method
Module 4: Optimizing how we work within our value stream
- Value streams
- Value stream layer
- Using the value stream
- MBIs and MVPs
- Using the DA tool kit
- Activity: Using the DA tool kit to coordinate activities
Module 5: Pragmatic planning for agile teams
- Planning
- Agile modeling
- Sufficient planning
- Dependencies
- Gantt charts
- Release planning
- Improving planning
Module 5: Pragmatic reporting and metrics for agile teams
- Understanding metrics
- How teams approach metrics
- How organizations approach metrics
- Effective ways to measure and report
- Use the DA tool kit to solve measurement and reporting challenges
- How to choose and design the metrics you need
Certification
The DASSM course has the following prerequisites:
Two years of experience working in an agile team, ideally in a leadership role such as Disciplined Agile scrum master, scrum master, product owner, or architecture owner.
Understanding of the fundamentals of the DA tool kit by having done one or more of the following:
Taken the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) course
Taken The Basics of Disciplined Agile online course
Read section 1, or more, of Choose Your WoW
The DASSM exam will require more extensive study and in-depth understanding of the concepts from the DASSM workshop and the Choose Your WoW book.
What is the format of the DASSM exam?
The DASSM exam is administered through Pearson VUE. The exam is an online, non-proctored test including 50 multiple-choice questions. The total exam appointment is 120 minutes—30 minutes for the introduction, tutorial, and survey and up to 90 minutes for completing the exam.
At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries.