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Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) - Help Organizations Achieve True Business Agility

Do you want to accelerate value delivery at scale by moving beyond individual teams and applying Disciplined Agile across your organization?

Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) folds practices from Flow, Lean, the Theory of Constraints, and Organizational Development into Disciplined Agile to give you the tools to optimize enterprise-wide value streams.

Filled with collaborative activities, supplemental reading and more, this 21 PDU instructor-led course goes beyond a single framework by teaching you the mindset, practices and tools to reduce waste and focus on what matters.

Course Delivery Format

• This course will be delivered across 5 consecutive days, each day will be 4.5 hours in duration.
• Please note, we also offer other deliveries of this course in 8-hour durations across 3 consecutive days as an option.

Why attend this course?

• Learn to determine the best place for an organization to start.
• Be equipped to tailor an organization’s improvement plan based on their unique needs, while also paying attention to their culture.
• Know how to accelerate the realization of value by your customers at scale.
• Identify the most effective practices for each situation with the help of the DA tool kit—whether it be a new Agile transition or continuing a stagnated SAFe or Spotify approach.
• Be able to train an organization to continue to improve on their own.

Learning Objectives with the DAVSC training:

• Learn to determine the best place for an organization to start – portfolio management, product management or development area.
• Be equipped to tailor an organization’s improvement plan based on their unique needs, while also attending to the culture of the organization to evolve at their proper pace.
• Be able to train an organization to continue to improve on their own.
• Know how to accelerate value delivery at scale.

Requirements

• Three years of agile experience
• The Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification to ensure in-depth knowledge of the DA tool kit and the hundreds of practices and strategies it contains

Course Logistics

The course is comprised of an introduction and 14 lessons:

• Introduction: The Disciplined Agile Mindset
• Lesson 1: Value Stream Consultant: Role and Work
• Lesson 2: The Idealized Value Stream
• Lesson 3: Removing Delays in the Workflow
• Lesson 4: The Minimum Business Increment
• Lesson 5: The Discovery Workflow and the Development Intake Process
• Lesson 6: Value Flow Planning and Coordination
• Lesson 7: Working with a Common Cadence and Synchronization
• Lesson 8: End of Increment Activities and Reducing, Not Accommodating Dependencies
• Lesson 9: Factors for Effective Value Streams
• Lesson 10: Value Creation Structure
• Lesson 11: Agile Budgeting and Lean Funding
• Lesson 12: Creating Visibility Across the Organization
• Lesson 13: Key Roles
• Lesson 14: The Disciplined Agile Playbook

How it works

• Complete course and attain the DAVSC Trained badge.
• Accept the invitation to the exclusive DAVSC Community of Practice, where you will gain additional resources and support as you start to practice the skills you learned and prepare for certification.
• After 3 months of membership and practice in the community, you will be eligible to register for the DAVSC exam. The DAVSC exam fee is included in the course tuition.
• Pass the exam and claim your DAVSC Certified badge.

In these challenging and unique market conditions, adaptability will be the key to relevance, both for businesses and professionals. Now more than ever is the time to upskill yourself, and differentiate the value you bring.

Making Business Agility Your Competitive Advantage

Process Mentors helps organizations worldwide focus on delivering the highest business value in a shorter amount of time, consistently, sustainably, and with higher quality.

Our goal is for organizations to achieve business agility through learning teams that are part of a learning organization. We enable organizations and individuals seeking to adopt modern ways of delivering value. Our service offerings include live training (virtual & in-person), on-demand training, just-in-time training and coaching, agile transformation leadership, and value stream management. We have enabled hundreds of teams and thousands of individuals.

We are committed to building the Disciplined Agile community, giving back as we learn and grow collectively.

Instructor: Aldo Rall

Aldo Rall is-Co-Founder of Novavi Limited and is an experienced IT practitioner and consultant with a deep background in delivering valuable solutions to customers. He is certified across a range of agile and IT skills, including the Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications; Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) and DASM/DASM/DAVSC/DAC Instructor. He holds a Master’s degree in Management. Aldo has mastered the practical elements of developing working solutions across a range of titles, assignments, projects, organizations, industries and countries (both in and outside the IT domain). He is versed in engaging stakeholders at the strategic, tactical and operational levels of organizations and understanding the complexity inherent in building and managing modern organizations. Well-developed experience and skills in people management, leadership, continuous improvement, critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration. Aldo has experience in techniques, methods, frameworks and practices utilized in testing, business analysis, project management, Agile and people- and process change management to name a few.

Instructor: Horia Slușanschi

Horia Slușanschi is Co-Founder of Novavi Limited and is an experienced Lean and Agile coach.He is a trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and holds a PhD in Computer Science .Horia has the following Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications; Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) and DASM/DASM/DAVSC/DAC Instructor. He mentors in helping numerous organizations transform their thinking, organizational and action habits to achieve better outcomes, all while improving professional and personal satisfaction for everyone involved.

Instructor: Al Shalloway

Al Shalloway is the Founder and CEO of Success Engineering, taking an engineering/scientific approach to success for clients, employees, companies & society. As the creator of the DAVSC course and the FLEX system that powers Disciplined Agile's at scale approach and being a past SPC Trainer & Gold Partner, Al can help any agile at scale program that needs a shot in the arm. Several key insights and methods are missing in most Agile at scale programs that he can assist with in a short term consulting engagement with or without changing the framework/method being used for the adoption. His experience with patterns thinking also enables to assist enterprise architects on overall design issues.

Benefits

Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant

• Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC) exam and earn a valuable, credible certification. Your exam fee is included in tuition.
• Certificate of Achievement for attending the course.
• As a benefit of completing the DAVSC course you can claim (21) PDU’s in your PMI membership profile

Process Mentors Exclusive Benefits

• Aldo Rall, Horia Slușanschi and Al Shalloway will be co-delivering the course
• At the end of each day of class, Al will stay on for 45 minutes to answer your questions
• As a graduate of the Process Mentors DAVSC workshop, you will be invited to attend a monthly 2 hour meeting to have Al answer your questions, customer questions and questions on organizational setting scenarios.

Course Logistics

Video Conferencing: Zoom video conferencing with real-time messaging and content sharing will be used. Class exercises will use a virtual collaboration platform.

Class day will begin at 10:00 am and finish no later than 2:30 pm AEDT (Sydney Time).

Please note - The delivery time will be 6:00 pm EST and finish no later than 10:30 pm EST Time- the day prior to the scheduled date.

Please Note: An email from admin will be sent before the course that contains the schedule, access to the student materials and link to the Zoom meeting. The contact email address that will be used is training@processmentors.com. You may need to check your spam folder or if you use rules to direct your incoming mail to specific folders.

We require a minimum number of registrations for this course. If the minimum number is not met, the course will be cancelled. Registrants will be contacted and registrations will be offered to be moved to the next scheduled class or registrant will receive a refund.

*Tickets are non-refundable if the registrant cancels, however they are fully transferable to another attendee.

Do you have a group of people that requires training in your company?

Please contact Training@ProcessMentors.com for more information on volume pricing.