The British Academy for Training and Development offers the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Course. Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Course is designed for agile practitioners who lead multiple teams to optimise their deliveries using advanced principles of Disciplined Agile (DA). It is a foundation of DA roles and responsibilities that allow attendees to participate confidently in team dynamics, create emotional intelligence and eventually an agile mindset.

The course will explore the stages of developing a team from formation to performance and how leaders can help to get a team through each of those phases. The course also seeks to equip attendees with skills on conflict resolution, decision-making techniques, and techniques of agile facilitation, which will improve the performance of teams. 

Attendees will receive value stream improvement, guiding them in assessing their processes and channeling changes into becoming quicker and better. Also, the course brings to the students tools for metrics-based decision making where all progress is quantifiable and aligned with the strategy. Special treatment is applied to agile project planning in all its cycles of execution, Lean, Agile, and Mixed methods. 

Risk management, escalation methods, and governance within agile environments are also addressed in this course but in the enterprise-wide context of agility. Attendees will be taught how to work through guided continuous improvement, which facilitates iterative and sustainable change.

They will leave the course equipped to undertake even the most complex delivery environments and support their organisation in improving and mentoring others in Disciplined Agile ways of working.

Objective:

By the end of the course, attendees will be able to:

• Leading agile teams through complex projects with enhanced skills.

• To apply the advanced techniques and tools of Disciplined Agile in practical scenarios.

• To effectuate team development, decision-making, and conflict resolution programmes.

• To strategise and implement value stream improvements and incorporate continuous improvement practices.

• To build confidence in leading the multiteam environment and support enterprise level agility.

• To build capacity around governance, risk management, and metrics based planning in an agile context.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for:

• Agile team leaders or Scrum Masters aspiring for senior roles.

• Project Managers making the shift to agile environments.

• Product Owners working with multiple teams or scaling agile.

• Agile Coaches and Delivery Managers.

• Professionals seeking DASSM accreditation to further their careers.

How will attendees benefit?

Attendees will gain many benefits include:

• Develop Competitive Senior-level Leadership Competencies in Agile: By the end of the programme, you will be able to lead multiple agile teams, manage interdependencies among those teams, and apply effective techniques within complicated delivery environments.

• Employ the Disciplined Agile Toolkit: Learn all the above for the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit that will enable teams to tailor ways of working (WoW) fitting to your organisational goals.

• Advance Decision-making Capacity: Put into action affordable frameworks of deciding matters, reconciliation over conflicts, and planning with the use of metrics.

• Drive Continuous Improvement: Learn how to lead value stream improvements and implement guided continuous improvement initiatives that will bring gains in productivity and efficiency.

• Improve Cross Team Collaboration: Gain understanding on managing collaborative engagement across several teams and align it with enterprise objectives through DA principles.

• Enhance Career Progress: Become DASSM certified globally, thus augmenting your credibility and employability for agile leadership jobs in diverse industries.

• Encourage Agile Transformation: Learn the tools to enable and guide your enterprise's agile shift while affecting large-scale culture, mindset, and performance.

• Plan and Manage Hybrid and Complex Projects: Be prepared to plan and control Agile, Lean, and Hybrid lifecycle projects with more adaptability and control.

• Deepen Emotional Intelligence: Learn leading with empathy, psychological safety, and building high-resiliency, high-performance teams.

• Stay Globally Competitive: Be a leading agile leader with great skills who can produce value-based outcomes in today's fast-moving and ever-changing business landscapes.

Introduction to Disciplined Agile (DA)

• Overview of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)

• Understanding the DA Mindset

• Roles and responsibilities of the Senior Scrum Master

Team Development and Leadership

• Phases of team development

• Building and leading high-performing teams

• Strengthening emotional intelligence and team collaboration

Agile Facilitation and Conflict Resolution

• Tools for effective agile facilitation

• Navigating and resolving team conflict

• Applying conflict resolution strategies in complex settings

Decision-Making and Metrics

• Decision-making frameworks for agile teams

• Leveraging agile metrics to guide performance and delivery

• Using data for continuous improvements

Managing Multiple Team

• Leading and coordinating multiple agile teams

• Identifying and overcoming inter-team challenges

• Role of the DASSM in cross-team collaboration

Value Stream Management

• Understanding and mapping value streams

• Identifying bottlenecks and optimising workflow

• Tools for value stream improvement

Agile and Hybrid Lifecycle Planning

• Selecting the appropriate lifecycle approach (Agile, Lean, Hybrid)

• Planning, coordinating, and executing complex agile projects

• Managing dependencies and delivery risks

Risk Management and Governance

• Applying agile approaches to risk management

• Addressing compliance and governance in DA environments

• Balancing agility with control and structure

Supporting Organizational Change

• Enabling organizational agility

• Coaching others in Disciplined Agile practices

Driving continuous, guided improvement at scale