Duration
2 days
Overview
The Disciplined Agile (DA) is a tool kit of agile strategies and practices that leverages ideas from a variety of agile, lean, iterative, and even traditional sources. DA provides guidance to help organizations choose their way of working (WoW) in a context-sensitive manner. DA’s fundamental advice is to start where you are, do the best that you can in the given situation that you face, and always strive to get better.
Learning Objective
Learning objective for this training based on Disciplined Agile Scrum Master™ however training will cover beyond than prescribed agenda to help people adopt new Way of Working.
- Understand the fundamentals of agile and lean, and how you can practically use both approaches to produce value for your organization.
- Explore multiple agile and lean techniques from methods such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, XP, DevOps and LSD.
- Understand how to put these techniques into practice and ensure successful agile adoption within teams and organization.
- Appreciate the DA™ mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice, and adapting to context.
- Learn how to apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the most effective way of working (WoW) for you, and your team in your unique situation.
- Learn how to practice Scrum with Kanban to visualize workflow and DevOps to amplify feedback loop.
- 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.
Who should attend this training?
- Anyone familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean
- Anyone interested in learning Agile methodology
- Those experienced with Agile and wish to accelerate their career
- Anyone who wishes to build a career in Agile
- Project/Program Managers, Agilists, and DevOps Practitioners,
- Any stakeholder who interacts with Agile projects in their business environment
Agenda for the training:
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
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
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 Development for high-performing teams
- Emotional intelligence for high-performing teams
- Team Context and Scaling Factors
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
Tailoring Your Practices: Inception Phase
- DA Phases
- DA Process Goals
- Agile Practices: Plan the Release (Agile life cycle)
- Choices in the Inception Phase
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
- Optimizing how we work with the value stream layer
- Deliver Incrementally
- Ensure Value by Building Quality In
- Use Pull Systems and Kanban Boards
- Choices in the Construction Phase
Tailoring Your Practices: Transition Phase
- The Transition phase
- Transition phase process goals
- Choosing a process goal, a decision point, and an option
Pragmatic Reporting and metrics for agile teams
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.