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Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Certification

DASSM Certification

Become an outstanding Scrum Master with the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master toolkit.

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DASSM Training Highlights

Take your Scrum Master Skills to the Next Level

16 Hours Live Instructor-Led Training

Earn 16 PDUs on Course Completion

Real-World Experiential Workshops

Game-Based Immersive Learning Approach

Free Self-Paced DASM Course Worth US $350

DASSM Free Exam Retake Worth US $180

Dive deep into the Disciplined Agile tool kit and develop a comprehensive understanding of the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains and the trade-offs of applying them. Apply the strategies and tools in hands-on exercises to guide your team in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in real-life situations.

KnowledgeHut is a Disciplined Agile Partner and Premier Authorized Training Partner (ATP) of the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. In an exclusive partnership with PMI, we bring you an Accelerated DASSM Career Track – a leadership bundle which includes self-paced DASM e-learning worth US $350, free of cost, along with the 16-hour instructor-led training and a free DASSM exam retake worth US $180.

Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM), a designation offered by PMI® to practitioners who successfully complete the DASSM certification training and demonstrate their understanding by passing the exam, validates your expertise as a Scrum professional.

WHY KNOWLEDGEHUT FOR DASSM CERTIFICATION

The KnowledgeHut Advantage

Solid Track Record

KnowledgeHut has empowered over 150,000 professionals with certifications in Agile and Scrum.

Experiential Workshops

High-energy interactive workshops with activities, animations, real-world simulations and more.

Elite Panel of Trainers

Certified trainers with over ten years of experience as Scrum and Agile practitioners across industries.

Expert Practitioners

Real-world tips and time-tested techniques for your Disciplined Agile toolbox from expert practitioners.

Comprehensive Exam Support

Get comprehensive exam support right from the beginning to clear your exam easily in the first attempt!

Exclusive Post-Training Sessions

Six months of post-training mentor guidance to overcome challenges in your Scrum career.

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Prerequisites for the DASSM Certification

Prerequisites and Eligibility
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DASSM Certification FAQs

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

The Disciplined Agile Senior 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 DASSM certification exam.

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.

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Curriculum

1. Roles and Responsibilities of a DASSM

Topics:

  • 3 issues that affect team performance
  • 4 stages of team development and how each relates to the content, process, and feelings issues
  • Tuckman Team Development Model (Tuckman, 1965)
  • Tuckman’s observations about team development
  • Factors that impact the time a team takes to evolve
  • Adapt Tuckman model to the modern real-world

2. Team Development Activities

Topics:

  • Forming Stage
    • Forming stage behaviours
    • Teams’ needs during the forming stage
    • Tasks for the leader to develop teams in the forming stage
  • Storming Stage
    • Storming stage behaviours
    • Teams’ need during the storming stage
    • Tasks for the leader to develop teams in the storming stage
  • Norming Stage
    • Norming stage behaviours
    • Teams’ needs during the norming stage
    • Tasks for the leader to develop teams in the norming stage
  • Performing Stage
    • Performing stage behaviours
    • Teams needs during the performing stage
    • Tasks for the leader to develop teams in the performing stage

3. Methods of Team Decision making

Topics:

  • Consensus based decision-making
  • Balancing learning about new information with moving quickly
  • Techniques: Roman voting, Fist of Five, Highsmith’s Decision Spectrum

4. Factors that influence Team Performance

Topics:

  • Emotional intelligence model and its components
  • Assess what practices you can adopt to build outlook and resilience.
  • Assess what practices you can adopt to enhance your “with self” dimension of emotional intelligence
  • Assess what practices you can adopt to enhance your “with others” dimension of emotional intelligence.
  • Describe why one should create psychological safety and embrace diversity
  • Define emotional intelligence and explain why it is essential to team performance.
  • Explain how to achieve each component of resilience and outlook.
  • Explain how to achieve each component of emotional intelligence “with self.”
  • Explain how to achieve each component of emotional intelligence “with others.

What You'll Learn in the DASSM Certification

Learning Objectives
Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities of a Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master.

Disciplined Agile Toolkit

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

Evolving WoW

Hands-on exercises to practice choosing the best WoW for your team’s context.

Complex Problem-Solving

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

Performance Management

The design and implementation of metrics to measure performance across teams.

Emotional intelligence

Understanding the nuances of emotional intelligence and how to nurture it.

Who Should Attend DASSM Training

Who This Course Is For
  • Leaders
  • Scrum Masters
  • Product Owners
  • Agile Stakeholders
  • Disciplined Agile Scrum Masters
  • Aspiring Agile Professional
  • Aspiring Agile Learners
  • Agile Professionals
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DASSM Certification FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions
DASSM Certification Course

1. What can I expect to accomplish after completing the online DASSM course?

By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the skills to:

  • Lead high-profile teams for enterprise success.
  • Utilize hundreds of Agile practices and strategies, with knowledge of their pros and cons
  • Leverage the Disciplined Agile toolkit to guide your team in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in real-life situations.
  • Solve complex challenges commonly encountered in development and operational teams, the value stream, and at the enterprise level.
  • Design and implement the metrics that measure your improvements in areas where your teams are struggling.
  • Nurture emotional intelligence.

You will also be eligible to take the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) exam and be prepared to clear the exam. On clearing the exam, you earn the DASSM certification from PMI®.

2. How does a DASSM certification of Disciplined Agile help me?

The DASSM certification has been designed thoughtfully to help you in following ways:

  • In your organization, you are very likely using a variety of approaches to deliver solutions to your stakeholders. If you are applying agile methods or frameworks you might be using Scrum, SAFe, Lean Kanban, or “roll your own” techniques. Regardless of what methods you are using, the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit can help you to be more effective.
  • DA helps expand your knowledge and understanding of the pros and cons of hundreds of Agile strategies, principles and practices and how they fit together in an enterprise environment.
  • The certification demonstrates your dedication towards improving your Agile skills
  • The certification helps you stand out from the crowd and accelerates your journey to project delivery success.
  • It fast-tracks your career growth and widens career opportunities across industries.

3. I was previously a Disciplined Agilist. Which is the equivalent certification now that PMI owns Disciplined Agile?

As a Disciplined Agilist, you would have completed a Disciplined Agile workshop, but may not have taken the exam. You still would have had access to Disciplined Agile resources and news from the Disciplined Agile Consortium website.

With the retiring of the Disciplined Agilist designation, PMI offered a way to adapt to the new Disciplined Agile certifications. In July 2019, PMI sent eligible DA members a limited-time email/coupon to become a PMI member; access to DA resources would continue to such members through their PMI Membership.

4. I previously held a Certified Disciplined Agilist (CDA) certification. Which is the equivalent certification now and do I need to take an exam for this?

The Certified Disciplined Agilist certification has now been replaced with the new Disciplined Agile Scrum Master certification. Current Certified Disciplined Agilists (CDAs) will automatically become Disciplined Agile Scrum Masters. You would not need to take an exam as you will automatically migrate to the new certification.

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