PMI DAC Preparatory Course

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.

• 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.

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