Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification Training 

RefineM PM Consulting (a PMI Authorized Training Partner) offers DASM Certification Training.

Dates/Times:  Two Consecutive Saturdays in Q4 2023.  9:30 am - 5:30 pm (Eastern Time), 7 hours each day.   

Location:  Virtual (Instructor-led) 

Registration fee: $1100 up to two weeks before training starts.  $1300 after within two weeks before training starts.

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The registration fee includes the exam fee for DASM certification. 

PDUs

PMP/PgMP: 14 / PMI-ACP: 14 / PMI-SP: 7 / PMI-RMP: 7 / PMI-PBA: 14

Technical: 7 / Leadership: 7 / Strategic and Business Management: 0

Earn 14 PDUs with 7 hours of instructor-led (virtual) training on two Saturdays, 7 hours each day, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (Eastern Time).   

Location:  Virtual (Instructor-led).  

Registration at the RefineM PM Consulting website will open soon.  Group discounts available up to 30%. 

Email Victoria.Kumar@gmail.com for additional details.

Course Description:

Get Started with Disciplined Agile

Begin your agile journey learning multiple agile approaches; understand how to use the Disciplined Agile tool kit and find your way of working (WoW). Comprehensive training introduces leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more that frees you from any single agile framework and opens your options

Is your team treading water using waterfall? Do you feel trapped in an agile framework? Would you like to find solutions to the problems you’ve been wrestling with? Are you looking for ways to enhance your team’s agility?

Break free from your old ways by choosing a way of working that fits your team’s context. Find strategies to improve your processes and strengthen your team with the Disciplined Agile tool kit.

Disciplined Agile Scrum Master is a nine-lesson, instructor-led course that shows you how to use Disciplined Agile (DA) to improve your team’s way of working. In just two days, you’ll become familiar with foundational agile and lean practices that DA supports, practice using the tool kit to solve problems, and learn how to build high-performance teams.

Filled with activities, animations, supplemental reading, and more, this course will prepare you to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) exam and, equally important, start using Disciplined Agile immediately.

Learning Objectives:

After the completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Apply foundational agile and lean practices in your own team setting

2. Describe what business agility is and how it is core to value proposition of Disciplined Agile

3. Describe the significance of the Disciplined Agile Mindset

4. Define the DA principles, promises, and guidelines and how they set Disciplined Agile apart from other agile frameworks

5. Explain how people are organized into DA teams

6. Define the primary DA roles and how they each are key to the success of a self-organizing agile team

7. Explain how to help your team work well together using the Lean principle of “Respect people”

8. Analyze your team’s context to make better process-related decisions

9. Select the best-fit DA life cycles for your teams

10. Apply the five DA steps of choosing your team's way of working (WoW)

11. Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to successfully initiate your team

12. Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team producing business value

13. Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team releasing their work into production

14. Apply the relevant agile and lean techniques to support your team on an ongoing basis

15. Recognize when to be resilient

16. List and define the principles of Lean

Learning Outcomes:

With DASM training and certification, you will:

1.  Understand the Disciplined Agile mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice and adapting to context.

2.  Explore multiple leading agile and lean approaches like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more.

3.  Learn about the fundamentals of agile and lean, and how to use both approaches effectively.

4.  Understand how to put these strategies into action on your agile team and ensure effective implementation.

5.  Learn how to apply the Disciplined Agile tool kit to discover the best way of working (WoW) for you and your agile team in your unique situation.

6.  Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) Certification exam. Your exam fee is included in tuition.

Upon completion of this course, training participants will be prepared to take the DA SM Certification Test and pass the DA SM certification test with a score of 70 or more. The training registration fee includes the DA SM certification fee.

Course Outline:  

1. Foundations of Agile

2. Foundations of Lean

3. Agile and lean techniques

4. Core value proposition of Disciplined Agile

5. Disciplined Agile Mindset

6. DA principles, promises, and guidelines

7. DA teams and the primary DA roles

8. DA life cycles for your teams

9. Choosing your team's way of working (WoW) 

Required materials and/or textbooks needed for the course:

Course materials are included in the registration fee.

eBook: Choose Your Way of Working (WoW).

Digital version (ebook) is also available to PMI members at no cost.

Total course hours (duration of class & total instructional hours):

14 instructional hours

Delivery method:

(Online) Instructor-led Virtual Course

Course fee:

The course fee includes course materials and the DASM certification fee for students taking the DASM certification exam within 30 days from DASM training course completion.

Who is the course specifically designed for?

This course is designed for project practitioners who plan to get PMI’s DA Scrum Master Certification. No agile experience is required – this is introductory training and certification built to educate on agile and lean fundamentals and the Disciplined Agile tool kit. 

Why does the target audience need/want this course?

Training participants are eligible to take the DASM certification test, within 30 days from the course completion (at no additional certification charges). With a test score of 70% (or more), the participant becomes a Certified DA Scrum Master.

Instructor:

Victoria Kumar, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI ATP Instructor, CSM, CSPO, ICP-ACC, SA is a Past Director, Project Management Institute (PMI) Board of Directors.  She is past president of the PMI North Carolina Chapter, where she had served as Board Director for over a decade.

Ms. Kumar’s professional career includes project management and PMO program management for organizations in both the private and public sectors. She has served the NC State Government for several years as PMO Program Manager, managing large-scale government IT programs and projects.  She developed the PMO for the NC Office of the State Controller and served as an approver for statewide IT projects and programs as part of the State’s IT governance process.

She also served as Sr. Program Manager with AIG United Guaranty leading the EPMO in Enterprise Agile transformation and Principal Technical Program Manager at Red Hat, Inc., where she led the development of IT Portfolio Management and implementation of Red Hat IT’s Project Portfolio Management solution.

She has traveled worldwide, presenting on leadership development and traditional/agile project management in seminars and conferences, including for PMI SeminarsWorld and PMI Chapters.  She published several conference papers as part of PMI global congress proceedings.

Ms. Kumar is the Founder and Owner of Project Management Leaders Training, delivering project management, leadership development, and agile training workshops globally at deeply discounted PMI member rates.

Ms. Kumar holds master’s degrees in pure mathematics and in computer science from the University of Waterloo (Canada), where she has also earned Ph.D. credits in management science. She has a master's certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University. She is a graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute.

Ms. Kumar is a certified PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI ATP Instructor, CSM, CSPO, ICAgile Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC) and a certified SAFe Agilist. She is PMI-certified to deliver PMP Exam Certification classes, as well as PMI DA Certification training workshops including DA Scrum Master and DA Senior Scrum Master.