About this Event
The British Academy for Training and Development offers the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Course, designed for agile practitioners who lead multiple teams and improve project delivery. As part of its Project Management Courses, this programme develops advanced skills in Disciplined Agile principles, team leadership, conflict resolution, and decision-making. Participants learn to improve workflows, manage risks, apply performance metrics, and support continuous improvement across complex project environments.
Objective:
By the end of the course, attendees will be able to:
- Lead agile teams through complex projects with enhanced skills.
- Apply the advanced techniques and tools of Disciplined Agile in practical scenarios.
- 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 multi-team 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, including:
- 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) to fit your organisational goals.
- Advance Decision-making Capacity: Put into action affordable frameworks for deciding matters, reconciling 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 of 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 to lead 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.
Course Content
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 Teams
- 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 Organisational Change
- Enabling organisational agility
- Coaching others in Disciplined Agile practices
Driving continuous, guided improvement at scale
Event venue & nearby stays
British Academy, 133 Kilburn Lane, London, United Kingdom
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