Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials

The Professional Agile Leadership™ Essentials (PAL-E) is a interactive and immersive 2 day training that provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful Agile transformation. The training is a unique mix of theory & practice, optimized for the best learning experience.

Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an Agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to. To succeed in a changing world, organizations need to become more Agile, more responsive to customer needs and market changes. This training will equip leaders and managers to help their organizations change.

Course Learning Objectives

• Understand how agility can help you improve your organization's performance
• Learn the challenges teams face during an Agile transformation and how to remove impediments
• Discover the shift in management style that a leader must make when going from traditional to agile ways of working
• Understand the leader’s role in “self-managing” teams
• Learn how to assess and foster the team’s agile maturity
• Discover how to connect values (personal, team and Scrum values) and clear goals to develop high performing teams
• Identify how to measure the benefits and impacts of agility in your organization

Note that this course is not an introduction to the Scrum Framework or to using Scrum. Attendees will get the most from this course if they have been previously introduced to Scrum.

Who is this class for?

You are a leader who is involved in the adoption of Agility in your organization:

• You are a manager/leader, responsible for leading one/more Scrum teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners and members of a Development Team

• You are a (HR/PMO) manager/leader, responsible for developing people in the Scrum teams

• You are a Senior Executive, acting as a sponsor for the Agile transformation and want to know how to develop the leadership for the Agile transformation

How should I prepare?

Attendees make the most of the class if they:

• Study the Scrum Guide

• Have been or are closely involved in building or enhancing a software product or application using Scrum

• Read any book on Scrum by Ken Schwaber

Certification & Assessment

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification assessment. PAL-E class participants who attempt the PAL I assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost.

PMI PDU Credits

Students of Scrum.org courses are able to claim Project Management Institute (PMI) PDU credit: 14 PDUs after attending a two-day Professional Scrum Master (PSM). Please note that PMI PDUs are earned for course attendance and not for passing a Scrum.org assessment. Students can claim PDUs under PMI's "Education courses provided by other third party providers” category. You can claim your PDUs online at https://ccrs.pmi.org.