PMI Disciplined Agile Coach Certification  

DAC

Course 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 true business agility – agility isn’t just for IT anymore.

With DAC training and certification, you will:
  • 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.
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

    Learning Objectives

    • Understand how coach teams
    • Apply and optimize DA across an enterprise
    • Focus on culture changes
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    Prerequisites

    • Three years of agile coaching experience – this is advanced training and certification built to maximize leadership and directing of agile teams to effectively implement the Disciplined Agile tool kit.
    • Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Certification. 

    Course Length

    14 hours

    Two Delivery Options Available

    2 Days; 8 hours per day

    or

    3 Days; 5 hours per day

    Certification Exam

    Included with this course is one free exam code for the PMI DAC Certification.

    Upcoming Courses and Workshops

    There are no upcoming events at this time.

    Testimonials

    DAC

    Another amazing workshop with Process Mentors. The content is amazing, and Josh is a wonderful instructor. There is also the added benefit of spending time with likeminded professionals from around the world and glean some of their experience and knowledge.   

    Chastine L

    Owner

    DAC

    The facilitation & training by Joshua was exemplary. He explained the concepts really well and the ensuing hands on exercises helped to reinforce the concepts. Joshua is very knowledgeable on DA and I would strongly recommend anyone interested in DA to take the training through Joshua and Process Mentors.

    Ram K

    Project Manager

    DAC

    Practical experience gained from applying DA principles/skills/knowledge in semi-real life scenarios. Focus on practice…not knowledge transfer. Plenty of opportunities to learn from each other.

    Piu On (John) S

    Agile Coach

    DAC

    Joshua has been the best DA instructor I have ever had. Looking forward to taking the Bootcamp.

    Nate C

    Sr Technology Instructor/Agile Coach

    DAC

    Absolutely great again to see Josh delivering this with his immense wisdom in the space of agility. Glen attending this with Josh was really a cherry on a cake. I can clearly see how Process Mentors is different from some of the others and why it stands out differently among others.   

    Shrihari A

    Portfolio Practices Lead, Agile Coach

    DAC

    Really like and appreciate the new hybrid format of the course, with preparation allow more practical discussion and interactive participation (I hope others would go this way). Content was good and helpful. Well worth my investment in time.    

    Galen T

    Manager PMO

    DAC

    Joshua is an incredibly knowledgeable and skilled trainer. He did a great job of leading us through the material in a way where we “discovered” the insights, rather than just lecturing.  

    Alex G

    Principal

    DAC

    “The is no way to DA Coaching, DA Coaching itself, is the way.” For a two-day workshop, the DAC program was well crafted and well executed. I think it was the best possible preparation to be a DA Coach. For me, the DAC workshop helped to clarify the DAC role and how it would apply in various engagements. It was also a timely refresher on the DASM and the DASSM materials). We spent most of our time practicing DA coaching and interacting with peers. I especially like the tidbits that Joshua drops in. Some of these are communicated in a nanosecond, and it takes great concentration to recognize and make notes. These tidbits are like flakes of gold.  

    Roger B

    Value Stream Consultant

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