Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials

COURSE OVERVIEW

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials a 2-day workshop to equip leaders and managers of Agile teams along with their Product Owners and Scrum Masters to help their organizations change by providing participants with:
• An overview of what “Agile” is and why organizations need it to thrive in a changing world.
• The means to identify the potential opportunities, challenges and impacts of Agile in terms of business value and why this is so important to the next generation organization.
• Discuss ways to scale agility across several teams within the organization while keeping them working together to deliver on a common vision.
• And much more

Course Topics include: 
• Why Agile Matters
• Challenges of an Agile Leader 
• Leaders Grow Agility
• Developing People
• Measuring Agility

Language: English

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful Agile transformation. Students explore how the principles and values of Scrum help guide leaders in the decisions they make to create an environment for agility to thrive.

Leaders in Agile environments can find their role to be quite different from what they are used to, shifting focus to enabling self-organizing teams to creatively solve complex problems. Students in this PAL-E class will discover perspectives and techniques for fostering growth in people in the various Scrum roles in order to sustain long-term agility to the benefit of their organizations and customers.

Subject Areas

• Why Agile matters
• Agile challenges
• Leaders sustain agility
• Developing people
• Measuring agility

Objectives

In this course, students will:

• Identify potential opportunities, challenges and impacts of Agile in terms of business value and why this is so important to the next generation organization
• Understand techniques to support teams to sustain long-term agility including the role that leaders play, shifts in thinking, and the relationship between complexity and empiricism
• Discover ways to continue the development of the people to help them grow and prosper in an agile way of working
• Explore how to measure and guide agile product delivery

• Who Should Attend

• Leaders who are involved in the adoption of Agility in their organizations
• Those leading one or more Scrum teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners and members of a Development Team
• Managers who are responsible for developing people in the Scrum teams
• Senior Executives, acting as a sponsor for and developing leadership for the Agile transformation

• Prerequisites

  Students will be able to make the most of the class if they:

• Have read and studied the Scrum Guide
• Have taken the Scrum Open (free online assessment)
• Want to expand their capabilities as an Agile leader, to the benefit of their organization

Assessment & Certification

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) assessment, included in the cost of the course. If you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PAL I certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85% you will be granted a 2nd attempt at no cost.

This industry-recognized PAL certification requires a minimum passing score.

What Is Included

• Course materials
• Breakfast and lunch both days
• One free attempt at the PAL I assessment (does not expire) - a $200 value
  • If you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PAL I certification assessment within 14 days but do not achieve a score of at least 85% you will be given a 2nd attempt at no cost.

Some recent training clients:

About The Trainer 

John Gillespie is a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer and technology/transformation executive. He has guided organizations in the adoption of Lean/Agile methodologies and has been integral in leading enterprise-wide transitions.

He earned an MBA in finance and leadership from NYU Stern School of Business, an MS in Computer Science and has founded two successful technology companies.

Scrum.org maintains a defined curriculum for the Professional Scrum courses and selects only the most qualified instructors to deliver them. Each Professional Scrum Trainer is a practitioner and brings their experiences and areas of expertise to bear, but all students learn the same core course content. This consistency and quality helps students effectively apply Scrum in their organizations.

John is based in New York, USA. He is always happy to arrange private training for your company. Please get in touch to find out more.

What Clients Have To Say About John:

I had the opportunity to learn from John in his Professional Scrum Master class. John was not only extremely knowledgable about the framework of SCRUM, but he brought years of experience consulting various organizations to achieve their vision. The experience and stories breathed life into the material and made the class that much more impactful to my learning. I absolutely recommend John to anyone who is interested in learning how to cultivate high performing teams through the SCRUM framework.

Jared Blake, PMP, PSM I  Business Program Manager at Microsoft

John is an amazing trainer. One of the best Scrum Masters ever! Had the privilege of attending a course he taught and the quality and delivery was just phenomenal in terms of accuracy and brevity! One of the finest trainers out there. Highly recommend his trainings and do wish and plan to take some more.

Kavita Jain Senior Program Manager at Cisco

John is a very knowledgable instructor.  He provides a clear presentation with examples and insightful feedback into problems we are facing in our organization.  I look forward to attending more Scrum courses.                                        -Jose Awarado Senior Business Analyst at Shell

“John provided our group of 8 new Product Owners an excellent course. We discussed real-life scenarios, John's experiences, and how to put the classroom material together with his experience into our business model. It was an excellent experience. Additionally, this course provided the material and requirements necessary to pass the 80 questions Professional Scrum Product Owner I exam. I passed the exam one day after the course ended! Thanks for your expertise and for such a great course, John!”
- Peter Gorman. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

"I took the Professional Scrum Master certification training from John. This training is for folks who would like to understand the basics of scrum framework and dive deep in roles/responsibilities for a scrum master. John is an amazing teacher who focuses on explaining the course with examples and use cases. He is always open to questions and encourages them (either in class or over the email). He made the entire learning process very interactive, which made it so easy to understand. 
I highly recommend taking the class with him."
- Swati Gupta. Oracle

"John is a skilled Scrum instructor. His presentation makes everyone feel comfortable, no matter their skill level or experience; John's disarming charm accepts everyone where they are. He also has a deep well of real-life experience with project management that he humbly draws from to refresh whatever content he's dispensing. A skilled practitioner and trainer, making the world better one Scrum at a time."
- Tommy Poole. Scrum Master

"John was a very patient and informative instructor. He made sure that everyone understood every concept before moving forward, and took time to answer any questions that were asked with great detail. Thank you for the great class!"
- Hanna Heaps. PayScale Inc.

"John has an encyclopedic knowledge of what it takes to be a Scrum Master, as well as plenty of real-world examples to contextualize that knowledge. After spending the two days with John during his course, I was able to not only pass the PSM I exam but more importantly, I was able to bring his guidance back to my organization and help us improve our own practices. It also helps that he is a nice guy, a patient instructor, and impossible to stump with a question. I recommend John to anyone looking to improve their knowledge of Scrum."
- Bracken Hipp. Dataworks Development, Inc

Contact John:

Phone:      +1 516-317-8301
Email:       john@agile-ity.com
Website:   www.proscrumtraining.com

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