Many teams struggle with inefficiencies, misalignment, and adapting to shifting priorities. Disciplined Agile Foundations: Approaches for Team Agility is a one-day course designed for project managers, team leaders, and consultants looking to enhance team agility and streamline workflows.

This course goes beyond agile basics, helping participants tailor their team’s ways of working using DA’s decision framework and knowledge base. Through interactive exercises and real-world case studies, attendees will learn to identify challenges, select the right agile, lean or other approaches, and develop an actionable improvement backlog.

Realize your team’s full potential by improving collaboration, adaptability, and efficiency. Learn how to optimize workflows, accelerate delivery, and foster continuous improvement using Disciplined Agile (DA)®.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will have gained the practical skills to:

• Understand how to apply the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework to define and evolve your team’s Way of Working (WoW).
• Navigate the DA Knowledge Base and access context-specific practices for process improvement.
• Diagnose workflow challenges and apply targeted solutions using tools like the DA Team Canvas.
• Implement the Value Acceleration Process to prioritize and drive impactful improvements.
• Apply DA principles to real-world scenarios (including both IT and non-IT environments).
   

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for project managers, team members and other business professionals who are new to agile ways of working, especially those wishing to expand beyond the basics of Scrum or SAFe.

Prerequisites

This is a stand-along course with no pre-requisites, though prior knowledge or experience in agile would be helpful.

Materials

Participants will receive a course workbook containing PMI-provided course materials including copies of slides and case studies.

What You Will Learn

Disciplined Agile Overview
• Understand DA’s decision-making framework based on Lean and Agile principles
• Learn how to define and evolve your team’s unique Way of Working (WoW)
• Move beyond rigid methodologies by tailoring approaches to your team’s context

Exploring the DA Knowledge Base
• Navigate the DA Browser and microsite for practical use
• Access proven practices and curated guidance for process improvement
• Use the Knowledge Base to support informed team decisions

Solving Team Challenges
• Use tools like the DA Team Canvas to identify workflow challenges
• Diagnose specific team issues and apply targeted, context-sensitive solutions
• Develop the ability to assess team dynamics and improvement opportunities

Accelerating Value Delivery
• Apply DA’s 3-step Value Acceleration Process
• Explore “Quick Starts” for fast, focused process enhancements
• Build an actionable backlog for continuous team improvement

Scenario 1: Enhancement Team
• Analyze an enhancement team’s context using the DA Knowledge Base
• Apply the Value Acceleration Process to develop an improvement plan
• Practice tailoring the WoW based on scenario-specific needs

Scenario 2: Maintenance Team
• Evaluate a maintenance team using DA tools and guidance
• Design a context-appropriate WoW distinct from other teams
• Contrast needs and strategies between enhancement and maintenance environments

Exploring More Scenarios
• Extend DA application to complex delivery teams and non-IT functions
• Reinforce learnings from earlier modules with broader use cases
• Prepare to implement DA for enterprise-wide, ongoing performance improvement