PMI Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) - Online Classroom (exam included)

PMI Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM), including exam and certification

Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) is a two-day course that helps you understand the basics of agile and lean methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and more, as well as how to implement the Disciplined Agile toolkit to choose your working method (WoW™) based on the situation you are facing. This certification allows participants to take the Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) exam.

Course description

DASM certification will enable you to successfully lead agile teams and thus ensure the future of your career in a world where agile is rapidly becoming the norm. The Disciplined Agile® toolbox contains hundreds of proven practices, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® and even some predictive methods, and puts them in context.

Disciplined Agile is a versatile toolkit offering hundreds of frameworks, allowing you to tailor a Way of Working that aligns with your project and business requirements. Recognizing that every project is unique, it provides the flexibility to adopt a customized approach rather than relying on a limited set of “best practices.” The toolkit highlights various methods and outlines their potential trade-offs, enabling informed decision-making. By combining the best aspects of different frameworks, Disciplined Agile helps create solutions uniquely suited to your organization's needs.

By taking this course - and becoming DASM certified - you will understand how to adapt your way of working to the method that makes sense for the situation you face in your organization and industry.

Key Features

• Course and material in English
• Beginner level
• 2 days of instruction with a certified DASSM instructor (8 hours per day)
• Licensed course materials
• Multimedia presentations, group exercises and discussions, practical workshops, case studies and practical exams.
• 14 hours recommended study time
• Certificate of completion for the Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) course
• Earn 14 PMI PDUs
• 1 Exam voucher valid for 60 days. Online exam scheduled anytime.

Target audience

The following people will benefit from this course:

• Agile beginners
• Familiar with the basics of Agile and Lean
• Eager to learn Agile methodology
• Want to accelerate their career in the field of Agile
• Stakeholders working on Agile projects in their organization

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is required. This course is intended for people who are new to the Agile method. Anyone can take this Disciplined Agile course and obtain DASM certification.

Training objectives

At the end of this training, you will be able to:

• Apply the basics of Agile and Lean in your team.
• Describe what business agility is and how it is at the heart of the Agile Discipline's value proposition.
• Describe the meaning of the Disciplined Agile mindset.
• Define the principles, promises and guidelines of the Agile Discipline and how they differentiate the Agile Discipline from other agile frameworks.
• Explain how people are organized in AD teams
• Define the main roles of AD and how each of them is essential to the success of a self-organized agile team.
• Explain how you can help your team work well using the Lean principle of “respect for people”.
• Analyze the context of the team to make better process decisions
• Choose the AD life cycles best suited to your teams
• Apply the five AD steps to choose the team's working method (WoW)
• Apply relevant agile and lean techniques to successfully initiate your team
• Apply relevant agile and lean techniques to help the team create business value
• Apply relevant agile and lean techniques to help the team put its work into production
• Apply relevant agile and lean techniques to continuously support the team
• Recognize when to be persistent
• List and define the principles of Lean

Course agenda

1. All about Agile
2. Agile and beyond
3. Building and supporting a disciplined Agile team
4. Choosing a working method (WoW)
5. Initializing your team: adapting an appropriate way of working
6. Building a solution: creating a customized LPDM
7. Implementing your solution: customizing a suitable LPDM
8. Ensure that your team is constantly improving, succeeding and having fun
9. Influence the outside of the team

Course materials

• Course materials: an electronic version of the course materials, which can be viewed and annotated from a variety of platforms, including PCs and iPad/iOS, Android and Windows tablets.
• Resources for students: Additional resources to help you follow the course.
• Scrum Essentials: An additional document showing how an agile/Scrum iteration (a sprint) is planned and executed.
• Opportunity Download a free e-book from Choose Your WoW

Certification exam

• Name: DASM exam
• Language of the exam: English.
• Format: multiple choice questions
• Delivery: online, untimed exam, timed
• Access: DASM exam administered by Pearson VUE
• Duration: 120 minutes - 30 minutes for introduction, tutorial and exam and up to 90 minutes to complete the exam.
• Number of questions: 50
• Passing score: If you would like to view your exam results immediately after taking the exam, you can do so from your Pearson Vue dashboard by clicking on “View Score Reports”. PMI does not publish a passing score for its DA certifications. Only PASS or FAIL is indicated.
• Exam fees: The first exam attempt is included in the course registration fee if the exam is taken within 60 days of the end of the course. You have 60 days to take the exam. You can take the exam a maximum of three times during the admission period, as candidates do not always pass on their first attempt.
• Retake policy: a $150.00 fee is charged for exam retakes. Students can pay this fee directly on their My PMI dashboard.
• Once you pass the exam, you will receive your badge and certification
• The certification is valid for one year and can be renewed upon completion of the exam.

Licenses and accreditations

The Disciplined Agile® Scrum Master (DASM) training is offered by Advised Skills Ltd, which has been reviewed and approved by the PMI® Authorized Training Partner Program. PMI authorizes holders of the “Authorized Training Partner Program” badge to support the professional development needs of prospective or current PMI practitioners and stakeholders in their quest for “PMI Credentials”.