PMI DASSM Preparatory Course

Do you want to learn how to successfully lead one, or perhaps several agile teams? Are you looking to accelerate your ability to manage high-profile initiatives that are critical to enterprise success? Do you want to take business agility to the next level by applying agile and lean techniques in a wide range of situations, including non-software teams?

Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) teaches experienced agile practitioners how to use the Disciplined Agile (DA^™) tool kit to optimize how teams work, work with allies within their organization, and solve a variety of advanced problems. This 14 PDU course will prepare you to take the DASSM exam and start using Disciplined Agile immediately within your leadership role.

• Take a deep dive into the DA tool kit to develop a comprehensive understanding of the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains and the trade-offs of applying them.
• Learn how to apply the DA tool kit to guide your teams in choosing and evolving your best way of working (WoW) in any situation.
• Use the DA tool kit to solve complex challenges commonly encountered in both software and operational business teams.
• Learn how to lead agile teams through key enterprise activities, such as planning, coordinating, and reporting, and be ready to show your improvements in areas where your organization is struggling.
• Understand how to improve customer value delivery by empowering others in your organization, nurturing emotional intelligence, and resolving conflicts.

• Team development for high-performance teams
• Emotional intelligence for high-performance teams
• Tactical scaling in complex situations
• Optimizing how we work within a DevOps environment
• Optimizing how we work within our value stream
• Coordinating and collaborating across teams
• Conflict management for high-performance teams
• Pragmatic planning for agile teams
• Pragmatic reporting and metrics for agile teams

• Two years of experience working in an agile team, ideally in a leadership role such as Disciplined Agile scrum master, scrum master, product owner, or architecture owner.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of the DA tool kit by having done one or more of the following:
  • Taken the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) course
  • Taken The Basics of Disciplined Agile online course
  • Read section 1, or more, of Choose Your WoW—Complementary digital copy included with DASSM
• To determine if you’re ready, you can take our quick Disciplined Agile Knowledge Check. If you score 75% or more you’re ready. If you score less, consider taking the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) certification course.