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Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification Training

DASM Certification

Master agile practices to adapt, lead, and drive success in any environment

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Key Highlights of DASM Certification Course

Grow Your Scrum Master Skills

16 Hours of Live Instructor-Led Online Training

Earn 14 PDUs on Course Completion

Real-World Experiential Workshops

Game-Based Immersive Learning Approach

Comprehensive Exam Prep Support

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Are you struggling with finding the most appropriate Agile framework to fit your team’s context? If you’re looking for ways to break free from frameworks and evolve the best way of working (WoW) for you and your team, then Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) is the course for you. Develop the strategies to improve your processes and drive better team results with the Disciplined Agile toolkit.

With live, interactive sessions, activities, animations, supplemental reading, and more, this course will equip you with all the skills, tools, and strategies to start using Disciplined Agile immediately. In just two days, you’ll become familiar with foundational agile and lean practices that DA supports, practice using the tool kit to solve problems, and learn how to build high-performance teams.

Disciplined Agile Scrum Master is a designation offered by PMI® to practitioners who successfully complete the DASM certification training and demonstrate their understanding by passing the exam. It validates your expertise as a Scrum professional.

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DASM Certification and Exam FAQs

1. Who provides the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification?

The Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASSM) Certification is provided by the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the governing body for certification in Disciplined Agile. All Disciplined Agile intellectual property (IP) is owned by the Project Management Institute, Inc.

PMI is the world’s eminent non-profit professional membership association for the project, program, and portfolio management profession. Established in 1969, PMI has delivered value to more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world through global advocacy, collaboration, education, and research. For more details, visit PMI.org.

More information on the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC) can be found here.

2. Can I get certified without taking the course?

No. You need to attend the course in order to be eligible for the DASM exam and get certified.

3. Can I take any Disciplined Agile exam without completing a training workshop?

No, to be eligible for any Disciplined Agile certification exam, individuals must complete their instructor-led or on-demand training workshop from an authorized Disciplined Agile Consortium training partner and REP of PMI. Once you have completed the workshop, you will receive the eligibility code from PMI; this is required to schedule your exam.

4. What is the process to get a Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) certification?

Here are the steps to get the DASSM certification:

  1. Get trained by an Authorized Training Partner of PMI, by attending the two-day training.
  2. Schedule your certification exam at a Pearson VUE test center or via the online proctored testing solution, using the eligibility code you receive from PMI.
  3. Take the online closed-book multi-choice 90-min exam and get at least 35 out of 50 questions right.
  4. On clearing the exam, you are officially a Disciplined Agile Scrum Master.

Prerequisites for the DASM Course

Prerequisites and Eligibility
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DASM CERTIFICATION Syllabus

Curriculum

1. Disciplined Agile Mindset

Learning Objectives:

Explore the fundamental idea of Disciplined Agile

Topics:

  • What is Disciplined Agile?
  • Principles, promises and guidelines of DA
  • DA as an agnostic hybrid of approaches leveraging strategies from a variety of sources.

2. Business Agility

Learning Objectives:

Understand what business Agility means in today's business environment.

Topics:

  • What is business agility?
  • Identify the full range of business agility

3. Disciplined Agile Principles

Learning Objectives:

Discover the various principles that guide the Disciplined Agile approach,

Topics:

  • How Being Awesome is important for building a great Agile team
  • 5 levels of Enterprise Awareness
  • Choosing different contexts with different strategies
  • Pragmatism over Purism
  • Context counts
  • Strategies to optimize Flow
  • Importance of organizing around products/services

4. Disciplined Agile Lifecycles

Learning Objectives:

See how Disciplined Agile works along different types of lifecycles.

Topics:

  • How DA supports a variety of lifecycles
  • 3 phases of the DAD delivery cycle
  • Agile lifecycle and it’s application
  • Lean lifecycle and it’s application
  • Continuous delivery Agile lifecycle and it’s application
  • Continuous delivery Lean life cycle and it’s application
  • Exploratory lifecycle and it’s application
  • Program lifecycle and it’s application
  • Business agility and business lean lifecycles
  • Choosing a lifecycle that chooses

5. Choosing Your Way of Working (WoW)

Learning Objectives:

Understand the process of finding the best WoW.

Topics:

  • The 5 steps for choosing your WoW
  • Analysing team’s context using the spider chart
  • Factors impacting context when choosing a team's WoW
  • Selecting the best-fit lifecycle using the decision tree
  • What it means to be goal driven
  • The process blade and how process blades are used inside DA
  • Purpose of a goal diagram
  • How to read a goal diagram
  • The process goals of DAD
  • Ranking and selecting process goals relevance-based to the phase and the team’s context
  • Key practices for the team try using goal diagrams

6. Agile Foundations

Learning Objectives:

Develop your foundational understanding of Agile and the benefits it brings with it.

Topics:

  • Comparison of Agile and Waterfall
  • Benefits of being Agile
  • Agile iterative way of working
  • Artifacts and ceremonies of Agile

7. Disciplined Agile Teams

Learning Objectives:

Understand the fundamentals of Disciplined Agile and the roles involved in Disciplined Agile teams.

Topics:

  • Comparison of leaders to managers
  • While roles can be leaders
  • Primary and secondary roles on DA teams

8. Disciplined Agile Roles

Learning Objectives:

Understand the roles and responsibilities in a Disciplined Agile team

Topics:

  • 5 Primary DA roles and their importance
  • Responsibilities of the 5 primary DA roles
  • Enabling your team to work well together (Lean principle “Respect people”)

9. Inception Phase

Learning Objectives:

Understand the importance of the inception stage

Topics:

  • Inception phase and its importance
  • Process goals associated with the Inception phase
  • Agile techniques and ceremonies relevant to Inception
    • User stories
    • How to write and estimate a user story using different techniques
    • Acceptance criteria and the definition of done
    • How to effectively plan iterations

10. Construction Phase

Learning Objectives:

Understand the specific processes and steps involved in the Construction phase.

Topics:

  • Construction phase and its importance
  • Process goals associated with the Construction phase
  • Agile techniques and ceremonies that take place during Construction
    • How to demonstrate an iteration
    • How to obtain and receive feedback

What You Will Learn in the DASM training

Learning Objectives
Disciplined Agile Mindset

Firm understanding of DA, underlying principles like pragmatism, power of choice, and adapting to context.

Explore Leading Agile Approaches

Comprehensive understanding of multiple leading agile approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more.

Fundamentals of Agile and Lean

Fundamentals of agile and lean, and how to use both approaches as per the team’s context.

Disciplined Agile Strategies

How DA strategies can be put into action on your agile team and ensure effective implementation.

Disciplined Agile Toolkit

Pros and cons of the hundreds of practices and strategies in Disciplined Agile.

Complex Problem-Solving

Problem-solving for challenges found in development and operational teams, value streams, and more.

Who Should Attend the DASM Certification Training

Who This Course Is For
  • Anyone familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean
  • Anyone interested in learning Agile methodology
  • Those experienced with Agile and wish to accelerate their career
  • Anyone who wishes to build a career in Agile
  • Any stakeholder who interacts with Agile projects
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DASM Certification Training FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions
Disciplined Agile

1. What is Disciplined Agile (DA)?

Disciplined Agile (DA) is an agnostic, comprehensive library of strategies and practices, with practical guidance to help people, teams, and organizations to make process-decisions in a context-sensitive manner.DA teaches how to effectively combine strategies from Scrum, Agile Modeling, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Agile Data, SAFe, and many other Agile frameworks in a way that can be tailored and scaled.The DA toolkit leverages the experiences of thousands of teams who have already struggled through the very issues that our teams currently face. By referencing these strategies, you can accelerate your journey to project delivery success.

2. How did Disciplined Agile come about?

Disciplined Agile was originally Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAD was put together within IBM Rational, an initiative of Scott Ambler, based on empirical observations by Scott and Mark Lines along with other IBMers and several IBM business partners. These observations of what was actually occurring in practice, what was going well and what wasn’t, and in what situations it was working were first captured in articles, blog postings, and courseware. This eventually culminated in a book, Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise, published in June 2012. It has, ever since, evolved into a comprehensive agile and lean toolkit called Disciplined Agile (DA).

3. How does Disciplined Agile relate to business agility?

DA serves as a firm foundation for business agility. By leveraging the experiences of thousands of teams across industries, DA shows how the various activities such as Solution Delivery (software development), Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, Security, Finance, Vendor Management and many others work together. DA teaches what these activities should address and helps you identify a range of options that can be considered, describing the trade-offs associated with each option.

4. How is Disciplined Agile architected?

The DA toolkit is architected into four views:

  1. Mindset: DA builds on the foundations of Agile and Lean
  2. People: Roles, responsibilities and team structures are at the centre of DA.
  3. Flow: Processes are dynamic, depicted by lifecycle and workflow diagrams
  4. Practices: The small strategies and techniques count towards the overall goal. Goal diagrams are a high-level depiction of practices.

5. Who owns Disciplined Agile?

Since 01 August 2019, all Disciplined Agile intellectual property (IP) is owned by the Project Management Institute, Inc.

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