Disciplined Agile was originally Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAD was put together within IBM Rational, an initiative of Scott Ambler, based on empirical observations by Scott and Mark Lines along with other IBMers and several IBM business partners. These observations of what was actually occurring in practice, what was going well and what wasn’t, and in what situations it was working were first captured in articles, blog postings, and courseware. This eventually culminated in a book, Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, published in June 2012. It has, ever since, evolved into a comprehensive agile and lean toolkit called Disciplined Agile (DA).

DA serves as a firm foundation for business agility. By leveraging the experiences of thousands of teams across industries, DA shows how the various activities such as Solution Delivery (software development), Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Security, Finance, Vendor Management and many others work together. DA teaches what these activities should address and helps you identify a range of options that can be considered, describing the trade-offs associated with each option.

The DA toolkit is architected into four views:

• Mindset: DA builds on the foundations of Agile and Lean.
• People: Roles, responsibilities and team structures are at the centre of DA.
• Flow: Processes are dynamic, depicted by lifecycle and workflow diagrams
• Practices: The small strategies and techniques count towards the overall goal. Goal diagrams are a high-level depiction of practices.

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You can find out more about Disciplined Agile on its PMI homepage - https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile.

You can get started with Disciplined Agile wherever you are and in whatever situation you are. The DA philosophy encourages you to do the best you can in any situation you face, and always strive to improve. It guides you to carefully choose your way of working to make small, safe improvements over time instead of making huge, and often risky changes. Such an approach is referred to as Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI).

By the end of the DASM course, you will be equipped with the skills to:

• Cultivate a Disciplined Agile mindset.
• Adopt principles such as pragmatism, power of choice and adapting to context.
• Apply Agile and Lean approaches effectively.
• Apply the Disciplined Agile toolkit fit to the team’s context.
• Evolve the best way of working (WoW) for you and your Agile team.
• Facilitate change.
• Resolve impediments.
• Enable high team performance.
• Coach the Development Team.
• Coach the Organization.
• Increase transparency at each Scrum event.
• Identify possible violations of Scrum and address them.
• Enable high-quality Product Increment.
• Reduce technical debt in each Sprint.
• Enable Product Owner’s participation in Sprint Retrospective.
• Enable organizational design changes to adopt Scrum successfully.
• Ensure effective implementation of strategies into action on your Agile team.
• Understand the Disciplined Agile mindset and its essential principles.
• Apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the best way of working (WoW) in the team’s context.

The DASM certification has been designed thoughtfully to help you in the following ways:

• DA helps expand your knowledge and understanding of the pros and cons of the various Agile strategies, principles and practices and how they fit together in an enterprise environment.
• The certification demonstrates your dedication towards improving your Agile skills.
• The certification helps you stand out from the crowd and accelerates career growth.
• It widens career opportunities across industries.

The DASM certification has been designed thoughtfully to help you in the following ways:

• DA helps expand your knowledge and understanding of the pros and cons of the various Agile strategies, principles and practices and how they fit together in an enterprise environment.
• The certification demonstrates your dedication towards improving your Agile skills.
• The certification helps you stand out from the crowd and accelerates career growth.
• It widens career opportunities across industries.

Not at all. Professionals in IT industries or non-IT industries can take up this course. The DASM course is designed for those individuals who:

• Familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean.
• Interested in learning Agile methodology.
• Experienced with Agile and wish to accelerate their career.
• Wish to build a career in Agile.
• Are stakeholders and interact with Agile projects in their business environment.

There are no prerequisites to attend the DASM course. No prior Agile experience is mandatory. The Disciplined Agile Scrum Master training is an introductory certification program built to equip you with everything you need the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit with skills to immediately apply what you have learned.

• Familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean.
• Interested in learning Agile methodology.
• Experienced with Agile and wish to accelerate their career.
• Wish to build a career in Agile.
• Are stakeholders and interact with Agile projects in their business environment.