One of the most important aspects of being a DASM is leading your team through the agile journey:  embracing the DA mindset, understanding DA’s central concepts, and acquainting yourself with the DA tool kit to customize your team’s way of working and optimize your processes. This lesson provides an overview. You’ll learn more about DA as you proceed through the training.

The primary focus of a DASM is their team. In this lesson, you’ll learn about Disciplined Agile teams, the characteristics of a leader, and how you can support your team so that they can be their best. This lesson will also introduce you to aspects of a team’s context that can impact how you form a team and evolve your way of working (WoW). 

This lesson looks at business agility and how you, as a DASM, can guide your team through the agility journey. You’ll develop the skills to help your team choose a way of working (WoW) that aligns with their circumstances. Specifically, you’ll explore the different life cycles that DA supports and practice choosing the best-fit life cycle for a team.

The agile journey continues. As a DASM, you’ll coach your team to improve your way of working at a process level. This lesson introduces you to process goals associated with the Inception phase and shows where to look for alternatives to some of the agile practices covered previously. You’ll try working with the DA took kit to select new strategies based on a team’s context. 

As a DASM, you’ll want to help your team tailor their way of working in every phase of your life cycle. This lesson covers the Construction phase, including lean concepts and tools that can help your team excel. You’ll use the DA tool kit to improve a team’s Construction phase processes.

This lesson takes you to a new level in preparing to be a DASM. You’ll apply what you have learned to your own team by selecting a Transition phase process you’d like to improve and determining an option to try as part of your continuous improvement efforts. 

DASMs look beyond phases at ways their teams can improve overall. This lesson explores ongoing process goals. You’ll look at lean concepts and tools your team can implement across the phases and explore ways for your team to continue learning and improving. 

Since Disciplined Agile is based on both agile and lean, a DASM should have a firm grasp of lean principles and how they function at a systems level. In this lesson, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how lean principles and tools impact the organization, which will inform your work with your team.