PMI Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) Certification
About the Workshop
Who Is This Workshop For?
Workshop Description
Coach, Motivate and Inspire Teams with Disciplined Agile
Take your Disciplined Agile® (DA) knowledge and experience to the next level. Learn how to coach teams across the enterprise to choose their way of working (WoW), and how to guide different teams to improve together. Establish credibility with organizational leadership and help your organization to realize business agility – agility isn’t just for IT anymore.
Upcoming Workshop(s)
Workshop Overview
Why You Should Consider a DAC Workshop
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.
Why Attend a DAC Workshop
The concepts learned in the workshop enable adoptions at different levels of the organization. These are:
- TEAMS: understand how to coach a single team, a team of teams, disparate functional teams, and across a range of functional domains to improve their way of working.
- TEAMS IN ORGANIZATION: apply and optimize DA across an enterprise. Learn how to look at how teams fit into the organization and help them address problems that originate in other parts of the organization.
- AGILE TRANSFORMATION: lead teams through their part of the organization's agile transformation. Focus on culture changes.
Objectives Considered During Workshop
- 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.
What You Should Know Before
Three years of agile coaching experience is required for the Disciplined Agile Coach certification qualification.
As of October 2023, the DASSM certification is no longer a requirement to register for the DAC workshop and attempt the exam.
Time Investment
The course is 14 hours. Here are the delivery options available:
- 2 Days; 8 hours per day
- 3 Days; 5 hours per day
How to Get Certified by PMI Disciplined Agile
Included with this workshop is one free exam code for the PMI DAC Certification. Pass the exam and claim your DAC Certified badge.
Also, after taking this workshop, you will receive a Process Mentors Success Mentors digital badge to validate your attendance.
A Complete Training to Better Train Others
- What is a 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
- 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