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PMI Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) Certification

About the Workshop

WORKSHOP ATTENDEES
Who Is This Workshop For?
Agile Coaches
Consultants
Project Managers
Program Managers
Operational Managers
Course Description

Help Organizations Achieve Business Agility with Value Stream Management

Do you want to improve the flow of value to your customers, whether external or internal?

Learn how to identify and improve weaknesses in the flow of value to your customers. Understand how value flow management improves efficiency while simultaneously reducing the cost of delays, waste, and risk.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Workshop Overview

Why You Should Consider a DAVSC Workshop

The DAVSC provides a way for small to large-scale organizations to quickly create a starting set of practices that everyone in the organization can agree on and use tailored for the organization. The approach allows quick adoption, enabling a fit-for-purpose approach suited to the organization’s size, culture, and challenges. It lowers resistance, speeds up adoption, and makes it generally more effective.

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.

Why Attend the DAVSC Workshop?

The concepts learned in the workshop enable adoptions to orient around the value streams. This avoids the challenge presented by other frameworks where starting at the team level leaves out portfolio management (intake management process) – which is needed even in small organizations.

The DAVSC also provides a decision framework and a few selected quick starts. The decision framework explicitly states how and why to pick practices for your situation. It is also used for continuous improvement.

Objectives Considered During Workshop
  • Value Stream Management.
  • The “Minimum Business Increment” to guide enhancements to existing products.
  • Value creation structures allow smaller teams to focus on innovation and enable shared services to be closer to the teams they support.
  • Approaches to do planning (both flow and timeboxed and with shorter cycles)
  • A strategy to decouple the cadence of strategic and portfolio planning from the cadence of development. This enables having a quarterly business cycle with a shorter planning cycle for implementation.
What You Should Know Before

Three years of agile experience is required for the Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) certification.

It is suggested to view the "Value Stream" on demand course on the Project Management.com website https://www.projectmanagement.com/videos/866943/disciplined-agile-and-value-streams

As of October 2023, the DASSM certification is no longer a requirement to register for the DAVSC workshop and attempt the exam.

Upon completing the course, PMI will issue all attendees the "DAVSC Trained" Credly badge for recognition while you await your 3 month period in the DAVSC Community of Practice. At that time you will then be scheduled for the DAVSC exam by the PMI Admin team.

Time Investment

The course is 21 hours. Here are the delivery options available:

  • 5 Days: 4.5 hours per day
How to Get Certified by PMI Disciplined Agile
  • Complete the workshop and attain the DAVSC Trained badge.
  • Accept the invitation to the exclusive PMI 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.
  • Also, after taking this workshop, you will receive a Process Mentors Success Mentors digital badge to validate your attendance.
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
A Complete Training on Value Stream Management
  • Introduction: The Disciplined Agile Mindset
  • Lesson 1: Value Stream Consultant: Role and Work
  • Lesson 2: The Idealized Value Stream
  • Lesson 3: Removing Delays in the Workflow
  • Lesson 4: The Minimum Business Increment
  • Lesson 5: The Discovery Workflow and the Development Intake Process
  • Lesson 6: Value Flow Planning and Coordination
  • Lesson 7: Working with a Common Cadence and Synchronization
  • Lesson 8: End of Increment Activities - Reducing Not Accommodating Dependencies
  • Lesson 9: Factors for Effective Value Streams
  • Lesson 10: Value Creation Structure
  • Lesson 11: Agile Budgeting and Lean Funding
  • Lesson 12: Creating Visibility Across the Organization
  • Lesson 13: Key Roles
  • Lesson 14: The Disciplined Agile Playbook
WORKSHOP FEEDBACK
What Our Students Have to Say

By far the best training I've taken in a decade! Every day was full of valuable information, and Joshua is fantastic at tying concepts back to real life situations. I will be able to immediately put concepts from the course to work in my organization.

Geri S. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

Very information dense course, many examples and enough room to ask questions. Joshua managed to pack a lot of content and experience into his presentation; going through my notes will provide many weeks of research and additional insights.

Robert S. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

The course was packed with information! Fantastic course, lucky to be in a small cohort, we got the most out of the instructor.

Andy P. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

Excellent, I couldn't be happier! "World-Class" training! I have just completed the PMI Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) course with Success Mentors. Special thanks to co-presenters Joshua Barnes and Al Shalloway, their expertise and detailed conversations elevated a great course to a “world-class” level. Also, thanks to all the other participants whose extensive knowledge and energy contributed to a truly pleasurable learning experience.

Peter S. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

This course was well worth the investment, not just from a content perspective, but for the deep conversations we had with the other participants, Joshua and Al. I will be able to apply many of these approaches within the firm to drive our agility forward. Thank you!

Karen L. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

The pace and quality at which the concepts within the workshop were discussed and presented to the attendees were adequate and overall relatable.

Kareem S. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

One of the best workshops I've attended. The content was deep and broad, with ample opportunity to ask questions and dive in deeper. I'll be putting what I've learned into practice immediately since it dealt with areas I am actively working on. The fact that we will have on-going sessions will be absolutely invaluable.

Phil B. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

Really GREAT Content, GREAT Facilitators, and GREAT Learning environment! 10 Stars!!! Overall Learning Experience was AWESOME already!

Vijay R. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

It was great that it was 5 days, not 3. And I wish we have few more days for more practice and discussions. Overall, it is the most valuable course for me in the last few years. Very practical and pragmatic.

Nikolay G. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

It was one of the most deep-dived and rewarding trainings I have done since I started my business trainings with PMP. My favourite element of DA is "Context counts", as this way DA becomes the methodology I can mostly put into practice in my projects.

Dionysis S. Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant
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