Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) Certification

What is an Agile Coach Certification?

Disciplined Agile is a toolkit that focuses on the choices that must be made, the available solutions, and the trade-offs that must be considered. The Agile Coach has a demonstrated capacity to guide teams on how to implement and advance Disciplined Agile across the organization, establish credibility with organizational leadership, and help teams and organizations select their way of working (WoW) and achieve core strategic agility. Disciplined Agile users have businesses that produce value more quickly, reach markets faster, and have happy customers.

The DAC Certification makes you a Super Coach than just a coach. It provides you with a superpower, as experts say, in the form of a Disciplined Agile tool kit and the various techniques to help deliver value to your customer.

What is the procedure to become a certified Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC)?

The following are the steps to obtain the DAC Certification

• Attend the two-day Disciplined Agile Coach Training to receive from a PMI Authorized Training Partner.
• Using the eligibility code you get from PMI, schedule your Agile Coach Certification Exam at a Pearson VUE testing facility or through the online proctored testing option.
• Take the 120-minute online closed-book multiple-choice test.
• Exam results are made available right away once the test is finished, and you can view them by selecting “View Score Reports” from your Pearson Vue Dashboard. The exam score report’s full extent of information is a “pass/fail” classification.
• After passing the exam, you are officially a Certified Agile Coach.

Who offers the Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) Certification?

PMI®  offers the Disciplined Agile Coach. The Project Management Institute, Inc. is the exclusive owner of all Disciplined Agile intellectual property (IP).

Study Material:

Learning Objectives

1. Learn How to Coach Teams 
2. Incorporating and implementing a disciplined Agile toolkit with the goal of achieving agility in the organization
3. Focus on culture changes and understanding the soft nature of organizations
4. Learn techniques and tools to coach teams

Pre-workshop (Phase 1, asynchronous learning)

• The Disciplined Agile Coach
• Pursuing the DA coaching’s end objectives
• generating individual, team, and group-level transformation
• The framework of their organization while coaching teams
• Coaching teams through their transformation journey

Workshop (Phase 2, in-class learning)

• The DA mindset
• Working with your existing governance/PMO team
• Identifying challenges and competencies
• Determining improvement opportunities
• Working with the improvement backlog
• Creating a coaching playbook
• Implementing guided continuous improvement (GCI)
• Visualizing and removing impediments
• Determining the root cause of issues
• Supporting diversity in the workplace
• Guiding teams through the change process
• Overcoming barriers to decision making
• Working with external teams – integrating GCI across a wide range of departments
• Helping your organization develop the needed capacity

How does it work?

After purchasing your course, you will gain access to our NEW learning platform, providing course content, resources, study guides, videos, and more!

Does the Agile Certification course exam cost need to be paid separately?

No, the Agile Course Certification Cost for the exam is already included in the tuition fee.

What prerequisites are needed to attend the Disciplined Agile Coach workshop?

1. The candidate should hold an active DASSM certification 
2. This professional training and certification program is intended to help agile team leaders and managers lead their teams more effectively and make the most of the Disciplined Agile toolkit. A three-year experience in agile coaching is necessary.

What should I expect to achieve after completing the online DAC course?

• Learn how to align teams with organizational strategies and goals to enable agile transformation. 
• Focus and Facilitate culture change and transformation within and across teams
• Learn to coach disparate teams and groups of teams, often with different priorities and preferred WoWs, to identify the most appropriate way to work and learn together, given the situation they currently face.
• Learn to collaborate with different stakeholders and be a part of the core team for the organization’s transformation journey 
• Be the expert in the Disciplined Agile tool kit and accelerate process improvement by leveraging proven practices and strategies in context.
• Earn a valuable, credible certification by passing the Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) exam. Fees for the exam are included in the tuition.

Additionally, you will be qualified to apply for the Agile coach Certification Exam after completing Agile Coach Online, and then you will be able to succeed in it with confidence. You can earn the DAVSC certification after passing the exam.

How long is the certificate valid?

The DAC Certification is valid for a year, after which you must renew it.

What are the Agile Coach Certification exam criteria and the passing score?

The DAC exam is conducted as follows:

• Type of exam: online and closed-book
• Type: Multiple-choice questions
• 60 questions total
• 70% is the minimum required score.
• Duration: 120 minutes

The Agile Coach Certification exam contains a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before the exam begins with a duration of five minutes, a tutorial with a duration of ten minutes, and a post-exam survey with a duration of 15 minutes. There are 120 minutes allotted for the test.

There are no scheduled breaks during the DAC exam. An optional tutorial and survey that each takes between five and fifteen minutes to complete come before the test. The 3-hour examination period does not include the time needed to finish the tutorial and survey.

Is it possible to pass the Disciplined Agile exam without finishing the training workshop?

To take the exam, you must finish the instructor-led or on-demand training session. The eligibility code required to schedule your exam will be provided to you after the workshop is finished.

How many times can I apply to take the test again if I fail?

A 45-day waiting period will be in place before you are once more eligible if you attempt three unsuccessful exams in a 12-month period. A new set of three exam tries are given to candidates after the 45-day waiting period, this time within a 12-month exam eligibility term.

PMI recommends that candidates use the Community of Practice and offered course materials to study for the exam during the 45-day waiting period. From the MyPMI certification dashboard on pmi.org, you can submit payment for the exam.

About ProThoughts

The ProThoughts DAC workshop is an engaging, game-based, interactive training session with lots of activities to keep you interested and gain new material. You will learn the skills you need from these sessions to apply the principles in the workplace and, of course, to ace the DAC Certification test.

Currently, ProThoughts is the only one in entire Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to offer the DAC and DAVSC certification. And Ashish Sadekar is one of the 10 global DAC instructors who provide DAC certification training. 

As part of our post-training support program, the lead instructor delivers sessions to help students get their doubts answered. To help the students pass the Agile Course Certification Exam, we also give them a well-organized exam plan.

Learn how to facilitate agile transformation by taking an Agile Course Training and understanding how to connect teams with company strategy and goals.

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