eLearning

Disciplined Agile® Foundations Course

Offered by PMI

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)®.

PDUs8
Course Duration8 hours

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.

Individuals can register directly, while organizations seeking to provide course access to 10+ team members can contact PMI through this form.

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

This online course provides an opportunity to earn professional development units (PDUs) while building valuable skills.

Total PDUs

8

PDU points

Business acumen

0

PDU points purple selected

Ways of working

8

PDU points blue selected

Power skills

0

PDU points red selected