Certified Disciplined Agile® Senior Scrum Master DASSM - Exam Preparatory

Day 1: Agile Team Development and Emotional Intelligence

• Orientation session
• Pre-assessment Form
• Team Development for High-Performance Teams
  • Understanding the Tuckman Team Development Model
  • Assessing team development at each Tuckman stage
  • Problem-solving at different stages
• Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Teams
• Defining emotional intelligence
• Exploring each component of emotional intelligence
• Creating psychological safety and embracing diversity

Day 2: Lean Foundations, Tactical Scaling, and Impediment Resolution

• Foundations of Lean
• Tactical Scaling in Complex Situations
  • Significance of agility in an organisation
  • Scaling agility effectively
• Removing Impediments
• Disciplined DevOps layer overview
• Utilising the DA toolkit for solving DevOps challenges
• Optimising delivery with the "test-first" method
• Defining the criteria for "Done"
• Value stream layer in the Scope of DA diagram
• Using the DA toolkit to address value stream challenges

Day 3: Coordinating, Collaborating, and Conflict Resolution

• Coordinating and Collaborating Across Teams
  • The Coordinate activities process goal
  • Improving the value creation structure of teams
  • Optimising workflow and addressing coordination challenges using the DA toolkit
• Conflict Management for High-Performance Teams
• Recognising healthy conflict scenarios
• The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution Model
• Effective conflict resolution language

Day 4: Pragmatic Planning, Reporting, and Metrics

• Pragmatic Planning and Reporting
  • The concept of sufficient planning
  • Understanding the five levels of scope
  • Solving planning problems using the Release Planning goal diagram
  • Approaches to metrics in organisations and teams
  • Designing specific metrics for improvement
  • Resolving measurement problems using the Govern Delivery Team goal
• Post-Assessment Form