Whats a Disciplined Agile ® Scrum Master?

I appreciate the humour in your question :-) To answer directly, the Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) certification, offered by the Project Management institute (PMI), is a hybrid Agile framework. It draws from Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and DevOps, and is designed to help teams tailor their way of working based on context, rather than following a single method.

The philosophy is not to apply everything from every Agile approach, but to guide teams in choosing practices that suit their organisation, culture, and level of Agile maturity. DASM provides decision-making guidance, governance options, and scaling advice — making it particularly useful in large or traditional environments.

Personally, I like Scrum for its simplicity and strong support for self-managing teams. When scaling, I prefer to keep the core team structure aligned with Scrum and integrate coordination layers around it. That said, many organisations, especially larger, compliance-driven ones, resist full Scrum adoption.

In my view, DASM is well-suited for introducing Agile in more structured or change-resistant settings. It supports embedding Agile principles into traditional governance models (such as PMOs), while enabling a gradual path toward greater autonomy and agility.