The DASM certification will transition to Disciplined Agile Foundations.
Why is PMI making this change?
Based on community and customer feedback, we are evolving the DA portfolio to best meet the needs of learners, organizations, and our partners.
These changes will better align and differentiate DA within the broader PMI agile portfolio, clearly positioning it as a learning solution for teams, enterprises, and individuals that need to understand how to combine agile and traditional ways of working for complex environments.
Companies increasingly seek learning solutions that meet immediate upskilling needs and guide practical and effective implementation. The DA evolution shifts the portfolio’s primary focus from individual certification to group training, clearly defining its target audience.
DA: Online learning courses and tools and team-based trainings portfolio which offers guidance for blending agile and predictive models to create hybrid practices best tailored to specific project contexts. Ideal for complex environments where agile practices integrate with traditional project management or for organizations focused on scaling agile and hybrid practices from team-level to enterprise solutions focuses on teams or groups of teams, emphasizing agility within the smaller, functional units of the organization. It improves the ability of individual teams to respond to immediate challenges, collaborate effectively, and implement changes rapidly to meet project objectives.
Realize your team’s full potential by improving collaboration, adaptability, and efficiency. Learn how to optimize workflows, accelerate delivery, and foster continuous improvement using Disciplined Agile (DA)®.
Overview
Many teams struggle with inefficiencies, misalignment, and adapting to shifting priorities. Disciplined Agile Foundations: Approaches for Team Agility is an eight-hour course designed for project managers, team leaders, and consultants looking to enhance team agility and streamline workflows.
This course goes beyond agile basics, helping participants tailor their team’s ways of working using DA’s decision framework and knowledge base. Through interactive exercises and real-world case studies, attendees will learn to identify challenges, select the right agile, lean or other approaches, and develop an actionable improvement backlog.
This course is for project managers, team leaders, and consultants and equips them with proven strategies to optimize team workflows across diverse operational environments. DA Foundations
What you’ll learn:
Module 1: Disciplined Agile Overview
Learn how DA’s decision framework, drawing from Lean and Agile, empowers you to choose and evolve your team’s optimal Way of Working (WoW), moving beyond rigid prescriptions.
Module 2: Exploring the DA Knowledge Base
Master the DA Browser and microsite. Learn to effectively find proven practices and guidance within DA’s curated resources to inform your team’s process improvement decisions.
Module 3: Solving Team Challenges
Utilize tools like the DA Team Canvas to diagnose team workflow issues. Learn to pinpoint specific problems and identify targeted solutions using DA’s context-sensitive guidance.
Module 4: Accelerating Value Delivery
Apply DA’s 3-step Value Acceleration Process. Explore Quick Starts as tailored entry points to jumpstart improvement and build your team’s actionable improvement backlog.
Module 5: Scenario 1 – Enhancement Team
Apply DA concepts in a practical scenario. Use the DA Knowledge Base and Value Acceleration Process to analyze an enhancement team’s context and build their improvement plan.
Module 6: Scenario 2 – Maintenance Team
Analyze a maintenance team scenario. Practice using the DA Knowledge Base and Value Acceleration Process to design a context-appropriate WoW, contrasting it with other team needs.
Module 7: Exploring More Scenarios
Discuss applying DA to complex delivery and non-IT teams. Consolidate key learnings and prepare to implement DA principles to continuously improve your team’s performance.
PDU breakdown:
Total PDUs: 8
- Business acumen: 0
- Ways of working: 8
- Power skills: 0
