Accelerating your agile transformation with DA

We are having frequent meetings with organizations interested in Disciplined Agile and how to tackle the next steps to include it in their organization. The best way to portray a tentative approach to DA for your business could be the one on top of this post which is helping us show you a value-based approach, step by step, from discovering what is DA until your organization becomes a case success story to be shared with the community. We count on PMI's Authorized Training Partners (ATPs) to deliver these trainings and workshops.

I will describe each of these phases. Please let me know if they make sense to you or if you would like us to further discuss them with your organization.

Discovery webinar

You don't know what DA is and want to see if it goes with your actual way of working? I invite you to a 1h. webinar where you will see how DA works and where you will find some answers to questions like:

• Scenario 1. We are already using a framework, does DA mean that we have to forget about it and start from scratch? Let me tell you that in DA Context counts, take what has become relevant for you and your organization and team and let's improve from there.
• Scenario 2. We work with public tenders, with not much space for changing scope, time or budgetary issues. Does DA apply? Simply let me ask you if in your projects you can improve Team Governance, Metrics organization or measure outcomes, among others. If there is a space for improvement, DA can help.
• Scenario 3. We need to start a series of agile projects but are short on Scrum Masters. Could DA help in agile acquisition? Let me just ask you: could you imagine a tool that gives you a whole process-based perspective so that you as a scrum master have "simply" to choose the options that apply to your project.
• Scenario 4. We come from the predictive, more PMP? oriented way of doing projects but want to explore agile. Is DA a good starting point? In this 1h. webinar you could tell us if you see any risk in your actual approach, issues to be improved or demands you are having from your customers... we will explore how DA can help you with these issues.

DA team accelerator workshop + simulations

If you consider that 1h DA training is not enough and you need to know more about DA, this 6h. DA team accelerator workshop will provide you and your teams an in-depth perspective of how to use DA in your projects.

Invite Scrums Masters in your organization, Managers who need an agile approach to be able to handle new ways of delivering projects, PMO responsible, Teams already working with SAFe or Scrum, critical departments in your organization...

They all will understand the different project and product lifecycles and where they intervene, how to define next actions and, what is most important they will have an agreed roadmap.

• A case that can be discussed in this workshop: "Your company is running a race against a competitor, time to market is the key for your product to be where you need it. After some months of work all the team sees you are not going to reach on time. There is a need for an assessment, the DA Browser tool is the one you will use for this purpose". Since the DA browser portrays the way DA understands a project, as you see a pretty lean based one (inception, construction and transition), and since in the suggested scenario you are already producing your goods, you know that you have to assess some processes in the Construction phase. From the options DA provides in the Construction phase it seems that "Accelerate Value Delivery" is the one directly involved with your problem, you will need to explore it in depth (the tool will help you, if you want to know more tell it to me and I can develop a post on this) BUT BUT BUT, don't forget that the Disciplined Agile is a Guided Continuous Improvement approach, and the word guided is the one which makes the difference with DA. In this case, it means that for the Construction phase DA guides you to consider other possible aspects that might require your attention, for example, the process "Address Changing Stakeholders Needs", could it be affecting the pace you are delivering value?

If you are a new Scrum Master, want to improve a holistic view of your project, integrate all departments, understand what requires a shift into agile... this DA Browser tool is a super powerful ally and you will know how to use it after this workshop.

Become a professional.

DASM and DASSM courses

Once you see the value of DA for your organization is the moment to have all teams on the same page. The DASM and DASSM pieces of trainings will help in this. They are a 14h training that provide you with all the knowledge needed to implement DA in your business and start scaling it.

Share with the community

We are happy to share about your success. Let's be part of it, create a success story, publish it in specialized publications, help other organisations meet with you and learn from your experience... Let's make the DA comunity a vibrant one!

Helping you in this helps us a lot!

Which are your thoughts about this learning path? Want to know more?