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Take your DA knowledge to the next level
The Disciplined Agile Coach certification is designed for experienced agile practitioners who want to coach teams across an enterprise and help organisations achieve true agility. The DAC builds on the DA toolkit, equipping coaches to align teams with organisational strategies, facilitate culture change, and coach disparate groups of teams that may have different priorities and preferred ways of working.
Attendees learn to master the Disciplined Agile toolkit and use it to accelerate process improvement by leveraging proven practices and strategies in context. They also develop the skills to collaborate with, and potentially become an active member of, their organisation's transformation team.
Delivered by Laurence Wood, Senior Agile Trainer and Leadership Coach, the course includes both theoretical foundations and practical coaching techniques, with a focus on real-world application across complex organisational environments.
What your people will learn
- How to align teams with organisational strategies and goals to enable agile transformation
- How to facilitate culture change and transformation within and across teams
- How to coach disparate teams and groups of teams, often with different priorities and preferred ways of working, to identify the most appropriate approach given their current situation
- How to collaborate with, and potentially become an active member of, the organisation's transformation team
- How to master the Disciplined Agile toolkit and accelerate process improvement by leveraging proven practices and strategies in context
- How to be prepared for the DAC exam and earn a valuable, credible coaching certification
Why organisations choose DAC
Organisations undertaking agile transformations need coaches who can work across multiple teams, navigate competing priorities, and drive sustainable change. The DAC equips coaches with the toolkit, mindset, and practical techniques to do exactly that, grounded in the Disciplined Agile approach to continuous improvement.
For DASSM-certified practitioners and experienced agile coaches, the DAC is a natural progression in the Disciplined Agile certification pathway.
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DA Mindset and Governance
- The Disciplined Agile mindset
- Working with your existing governance and PMO team
- Identifying challenges and competencies
Improvement and Coaching
- Determining improvement opportunities
- Working with the improvement backlog
- Creating a coaching playbook
- Implementing guided continuous improvement (GCI)
Impediments and Change
- Visualising and removing impediments
- Determining the root cause of issues
- Supporting diversity in the workplace
- Guiding teams through the change process
Enterprise Coaching
- Overcoming barriers to decision making
- Working with external teams: GCI across disparate teams
- Helping your organisation develop needed capacity
Who this course is for
- Experienced agile coaches with at least two years of coaching experience in roles such as Disciplined Agile Scrum Master, Scrum Master, or team coach
- Practitioners who want to coach teams across the enterprise and facilitate organisation-wide agile transformation
- DASSM-certified practitioners looking to progress in the Disciplined Agile certification pathway
- Agile consultants and transformation leads who need a credible, recognised coaching certification
Certification and exam
Attendees who pass the DAC exam earn the Disciplined Agile Coach certification from PMI. The exam fee is included in the course tuition.
- Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) certification from PMI
- DAC exam fee included in tuition
- Access to PMI membership benefits and professional development resources
- Authorisation to use the DAC badge
What attendees get after the course
- Course instruction from a Senior Agile Trainer and Leadership Coach
- Course materials and access to the Disciplined Agile toolkit resources
- Eligibility to sit the DAC exam with the exam fee covered by tuition
- Authorisation to use the DAC badge on passing
Prerequisites and pre-class learning
Two years of experience working in an agile coaching capacity in a role such as Disciplined Agile Scrum Master, Scrum Master, or team coach is required. Attendees must also complete the following pre-class learning modules prior to the course:
- The Disciplined Agile Coach
- Working toward the end goals of DA coaching
- Supporting change at the individual, team, and groups of teams level
- Coaching teams within the context of their organisation
- Coaching teams through their transformation journey
Delivery options
We offer this course as a private cohort for organisations, or as a public course where individuals can book a place alongside practitioners from other organisations. Both formats are available remotely or in person across the UK, Europe, and the USA.
* Duration is 2 days of classroom instruction. Pre-class learning modules must be completed in advance. Contact us to confirm the total time commitment for your cohort.
About PMI Disciplined Agile
PMI Disciplined Agile provides organisations and practitioners with a flexible, pragmatic toolkit for choosing the right way of working. The DA toolkit includes context for predictive approaches and hundreds of proven practices, making it one of the most comprehensive agile frameworks available for enterprise-scale coaching and transformation.
Lead trainer
Laurence Wood
Senior Agile Trainer & Leadership Coach
Laurence is an experienced agile trainer and leadership coach specialising in Disciplined Agile delivery and organisational agility across a wide range of industries.