Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)

The Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) builds on the DASM foundation, equipping agile practitioners to lead, coach, and optimise agile teams at an advanced level. DASSM holders are skilled at navigating complex team dynamics, resolving impediments at an organisational level, facilitating continuous improvement, and helping teams choose and evolve their ways of working within the DA toolkit.

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What is the DASSM Course?

Who Should Take This Course?

Experienced Scrum Masters seeking advanced DA skills
Agile Coaches working with multiple teams
DASM holders ready to advance their credential
Programme Managers overseeing agile teams
PMOs transitioning to agile delivery models
Team Leads facilitating organisational agile transformation
Senior practitioners preparing for enterprise agile coaching

What You Will Learn in the DASSM Course

A comprehensive curriculum covering all exam objectives with hands-on labs and real-world practice.

Advanced DA Mindset and Leadership

Deepen understanding of the DA mindset and lead agile transformation at the team and organisational level.

DA philosophy and pragmatic agility
Servant leadership and team empowerment
Psychological safety and team culture
Leading through organisational constraints

Coaching and Facilitation Skills

Develop advanced coaching, mentoring, and facilitation capabilities.

Coaching stance vs. managing stance
Active listening and powerful questioning
Facilitation techniques for large groups
Retrospective facilitation and continuous improvement

Optimising Team Performance

Apply DA process goals to guide teams in continuously improving their ways of working.

Team maturity models and assessment
Impediment removal at organisational level
Flow optimisation and bottleneck analysis
Metrics and OKRs for agile teams

Scaling Agile Across Teams

DA Scrum of Scrums and coordination
Scaled agile frameworks comparison (SAFe, LeSS, Nexus)
Cross-team dependency management
Portfolio and programme-level agile coordination

Enterprise Agile Transformation

Change management in agile transitions
Building an agile culture
Engaging senior stakeholders in agile
Measuring business agility

Continuous Improvement Strategies

Kaizen events and improvement cycles
Value stream mapping for agile teams
Experiment design and hypothesis testing
Building a learning organisation

Course Prerequisites

Pre-requisites training is free when you purchase the course from ProSupport

DASM (Disciplined Agile Scrum Master) certification required
Experience applying agile practices as a Scrum Master or Team Lead
Completion of a PMI-approved DASSM course
Familiarity with multiple agile lifecycles and scaling approaches

Exam Information

Everything you need to know about the DASSM certification exam.

Exam Component	Details
Exam Name	Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master
Exam Code	DASSM
Exam Type	Multiple Choice
Total Questions	75
Passing Score	70% (approximately 53 out of 75 questions)
Exam Duration	90 minutes
Language	English
Exam Provider	Online proctored exam via PMI
Exam Focus	Advanced DA Mindset, Coaching, Team Optimisation, Scaling, Enterprise Transformation
Exam Registration	Included with PMI-approved DASSM training course; DASM certification must be active
Retake Policy	Retake available after a waiting period; may be included in course fee
Certification Validity	2 years (PDUs required for renewal)