PMI – Disciplined Agile (DA) & PMI ACP

Do you want to learn how to successfully lead one, or perhaps several agile teams? Are you looking to accelerate your ability to manage high-profile initiatives that are critical to enterprise success? Do you want to take business agility to the next level by applying agile and lean techniques in a wide range of situations, including non-software teams?

Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) teaches experienced agile practitioners how to use the Disciplined Agile (DA^™) tool kit to optimize how teams work, work with allies within their organization, and solve a variety of advanced problems. This 14 PDU course will prepare you to take the DASSM exam and start using Disciplined Agile immediately within your leadership role.

• Take a deep dive into the DA tool kit to develop a comprehensive understanding of the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains and the trade-offs of applying them.
• Learn how to apply the DA tool kit to guide your teams in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in any situation.
• Use the DA tool kit to solve complex challenges commonly encountered in both software and operational business teams.
• Learn how to lead agile teams through key enterprise activities, such as planning, coordinating, and reporting, and be ready to show your improvements in areas where your organization is struggling.
• Understand how to improve value delivery for your customers by empowering others in your organization, nurturing emotional intelligence, and resolving conflicts.

• Team development for high-performance teams
• Emotional intelligence for high-performance teams
• Tactical scaling in complex situations
• Optimizing how we work within a DevOps environment
• Optimizing how we work within our value stream
• Coordinating and collaborating across teams
• Conflict management for high-performance teams
• Pragmatic planning for agile teams
• Pragmatic reporting and metrics for agile teams

• Two years of experience working in an agile team, ideally in a leadership role such as Disciplined Agile scrum master, scrum master, product owner, or architecture owner.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of the DA tool kit by having done one or more of the following:
  • Taken the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) course
  • Taken The Basics of Disciplined Agile online course
  • Read section 1, or more, of Choose Your WoW—Complementary digital copy included with DASSM

Overview:

• Self-paced online learning or instructor-led classroom training
• Take agile and lean to the next level
• Learn how to lead team-level improvement
• Access to a digital version of the Choose Your WoW
• Suitable for individuals who want to better understand how agile works in practice and for teams who want to learn together

Virtual Instructor Led:

• 2-day training
• Highly qualified instructors

How it Works:

• Sign up for our instructor-led training or self-paced course based on your learning preferences.
• Complete the course to receive your DASSM exam invitation. You will have 60 days to take the exam and the fee is included in the tuition.
• After passing the exam, you will receive your certification, as well as a badge that you can share with your network.
• The certification is valid for one year and can be renewed upon expiry.

PDUs: 14
CEUs: 1.4
Level: Senior

Take your Disciplined Agile^® knowledge and experience to the next level. Help organizations achieve true agility by coaching teams across the enterprise on how to apply Disciplined Agile and choose their best way of working.

• Understand how to align teams with organizational strategies and goals to enable agile transformation.
• Facilitate culture change and transformation within and across teams.
• Coach disparate teams and groups of teams, often with different priorities and preferred WoWs, to identify the most appropriate way to work and learn together given the situation they currently face.
• Collaborate with, and potentially be an active member of, your organization’s transformation team.
• Master the Disciplined Agile tool kit and thereby accelerate process improvement by leveraging proven practices and strategies in context.
• Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) exam and earn a valuable, credible certification. Your exam fee is included in tuition.

Pre-workshop (Phase 1, asynchronous learning):

• The Disciplined Agile Coach
• Working toward the end goals of DA^™ coaching
• Supporting change at the individual, team, and groups of teams
• Coaching teams within the context of their organization
• Coaching teams through their transformation journey

Workshop (Phase 2, in-class learning):

• The DA mindset
• Working with your existing governance/PMO team
• Identifying challenges and competencies
• Determining improvement opportunities
• Working with the improvement backlog
• Creating a coaching playbook
• Implementing guided continuous improvement (GCI)
• Visualizing and removing impediments
• Determining the root cause of issues
• Supporting diversity in the workplace
• Guiding teams through the change process
• Overcoming barriers to decision making
• Working with external teams – GCI across disparate teams
• Helping your organization develop needed capacity

Course Requirements

Do you want to accelerate value delivery at scale by moving beyond individual teams and applying Disciplined Agile^® across your organization?

Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) folds practices from Flow, Lean, the Theory of Constraints, and Organizational Development into Disciplined Agile to give you the tools to optimize enterprise-wide value streams.

Filled with collaborative activities, supplemental reading and more, this 21 PDU instructor-led course goes beyond a single framework by teaching you the mindset, practices and tools to reduce waste and focus on what matters.

• Learn to determine the best place for an organization to start.
• Be equipped to tailor an organization’s improvement plan based on their unique needs, while also paying attention to their culture.
• Know how to accelerate the realization of value by your customers at scale.
• Identify the most effective practices for each situation with the help of the DA^™ tool kit—whether it be a new Agile transition or continuing a stagnated SAFe or Spotify approach.
• Be able to train an organization to continue to improve on their own.

• Value Stream Consultant: Role and work
• The idealized value stream
• Removing delays in the workflow
• The minimum business increment
• The discovery workflow and the development intake process
• Business increment planning and coordination
• Cadence
• Reducing (not accommodating) dependencies
• Factors for effective value streams
• Value creation structure
• Agile budgeting and lean funding
• Creating visibility across the organization
• Key roles
• End of increment activities

• Three years of agile experience
• The Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification to ensure in-depth knowledge of the DA tool kit and the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains.

Overview:

• Instructor-led classroom training
• Learn how to accelerate value delivery within your organization
• Suitable for experienced professionals who want to help guide improvement of their value stream or organization

Virtual Instructor Led:

• 3-day training
• Highly qualified instructors

How it Works:

• Sign up for our 3-day equivalent training with one of our authorized Disciplined Agile partners.
• Complete the course and attain the DAVSC Trained badge.
• Accept the invitation to the exclusive DAVSC Community of Practice, where you will gain additional resources and support as you start to practice the skills you learned and prepare for certification.
• After 3 months of membership and practice in the community, you will be eligible to register for the DAVSC exam. The DAVSC exam fee is included in the course tuition.
• Pass the exam and claim your DAVSC Certified badge.
• The certification is valid for one year and can be renewed upon expiry.

PDUs: 21
CEUs: 2.1
Level: Senior