• Understand how to align teams with organizational strategies and goals to enable agile transformation.
• Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) exam and earn a valuable, credible certification. Your exam fee is included in tuition.
• 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.
• 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.
• Facilitate culture change and transformation within and across teams.

Course Outline

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

• Three years of agile coaching 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

What’s Included

• 2 days training
• Course materials
• Remote learning via the PMI Platform
• PMI Disciplined Agile Coach certification exam