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Synopsis:

PMI Toronto presents an interactive workshop with Scott Ambler, the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies and co-founder with Mark Lines of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit.

If you are considering the use of the DA toolkit, this workshop will be a valuable foundation upon which you can build an agile team and organization. You will learn available tools and techniques and develop a strategy that works best for your organization.

Struggling with your current framework or methodology? Hoping to move away from a serial/traditional way of working? DA enables you to break out of “method prison” through Guided Continuous Improvement (GCI). DA’s fundamental advice is to start where you are, do the best that you can given the situation that you face, and always try to get better. This workshop will teach you how to do that!

​Background
The focus of Agile is on finding ways of providing value stakeholders through collaborative, evolutionary work. Agility began in the software development domain, and is now being applied at all organizational levels and industries. Lean increases the efficiency of how we work and the quality of that work. Lean began in the manufacturing sector, and is now being applied across all sectors. The concentration of traditional methods has been on predictability, with mixed results in practice. Traditional strategies were adopted throughout all sectors, and although many organizations are now adopting Agile and Lean ways of working (WoW) they are retaining traditional strategies where they make sense.

Disciplined Agile (DA) is a hybrid that combines agile, lean, and traditional strategies, putting each into context, showing how they fit together, and providing advice for when not to perform them. The DA process-decision toolkit provides straightforward guidance to help people, teams, and organizations to streamline their processes in a context-sensitive manner, providing a solid foundation for business agility. DA also describes what these activities should address, provides a range of options for doing so, and describes the trade-offs associated with each option.

Morning

Introductions
Overview of Disciplined Agile
• What is Disciplined Agile?
• Why Disciplined Agile?
• The Disciplined Agile Mindset
• Organizations are complex adaptive systems (CASs)
• Team lifecycles
• Disciplined DevOps
• Value streams
• The Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE)
• Team transformation – Guided continuous improvement (GCI)
• Organizational transformation strategies

Afternoon
• Participants will be asked to identify questions or topics they would like to explore
• Affinity grouping of the topics will be performed by the class
• The topics will be prioritized by the class
• Practical Workshop Topics

Who Should Attend?
• Project Managers (all levels)
• Change agents
• Transformational leaders
• Senior Leaders wanting to refresh/renew/transform their organization
• Agile coaches wishing to help their teams improve their way of working (WoW)

Biography:

Scott Ambler is the Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. Scott leads the evolution of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit and is an international keynote speaker. Scott is the (co)-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit as well as the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to the Disciplined Agile Framework, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3rd Edition. Scott blogs regularly at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com and ProjectManagement.com and he can be contacted via pmi.org.

Agenda:

9:30am - 4:30 pm - Workshop

Fees: (subject to HST) 

Early Bird Save $50.00 - ends March 23, 2020

PMI Toronto Members - $249.00 $199.00

Non-Members and Guests - $299.00 $249.00

PDUs: 7.0 (Strategic & Business Management 3.0, Technical 3.0, and Leadership 1.0)