Course Overview

Leaders and managers are facing increasing challenges as technologies, markets, and customers' needs constantly change. Organizations that use Agile product development techniques will often still employ traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static metrics.

In this Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management course, students will learn about the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) framework from Scrum.org - an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results.

This highly interactive class is delivered virtually over two half day sessions. After the class, students will get a passcode to take the PAL-EBM assessment. After passing the assessment, students will gain the industry recognized PAL-EBM certification, which will never expire.

Private classes and group discounts are available!

With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organizations need information and evidence that helps them adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities so that they can deliver greater value and achieve true business agility. Yet often organizations that use Agile product development techniques use traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static metrics.

That is why Scrum.org created the Evidence-Based ManagementTM (EBM) framework - an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve their strategic goals.

In the Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) course, participants learn what EBM is and how to apply it through hands-on, activity-based learning. Through a series of exercises, participants learn techniques that support a more agile mindset.

Subject Areas

  • Goals, measures, behaviors
  • Goals versus trust
  • Types of goals
  • Market leaders and losers
  • EBM Key Value Areas
  • Creating an EBM consultative plan

Objectives

In this course, students will:

  • Understand the essential aspects of goals and measures and how they influence behaviors and an
    organization’s culture and values
  • Consider empiricism as a leadership approach to incrementally steer toward the organization’s goals
  • Explore how goals and trust act together to enable autonomy, transparency, and value delivery
  • Correlate market leadership and sustainability to curiosity, adaptation, and empiricism
  • Understand how to use EBM and its KVAs to focus measurements on improving market value and
    operational capabilities

Who Should Attend

This course is most beneficial to professionals in leadership roles such as:

  • Executives, Managers, Program Managers, and others leading product delivery or Agile transformation
  • Product Owners, Product Managers and other product leaders
  • Scrum Masters
  • Coaches
  • Consultants

Prerequisites

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

Assessment & Certification

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management assessment, included in the cost of the course. If you attend this Scrum.org class and attempt the PAL-EBM 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-EBM certification requires a minimum passing score.

About Our Trainers

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.

Additionally, Insight Digital Innovation is officially recognized as a member of the Scrum.org Professional Training Network. This means we align with the Scrum Values, have Scrum.org trainers who teach a qualifying number of Scrum.org Professional Scrum classes, and are committed to improving the profession of software delivery in part by providing Scrum.org training.

About Insight Digital Innovation

Insight Digital Innovation is a global technology company committed to helping clients innovate smarter so they can create digital experiences that drive differentiation and loyalty. Our Agile transformation services team can help you adopt an Agile framework to improve how your organization delivers, develops, and approaches products and services.

For More Information

If you have further questions or want to inquire about private and/or on-site classes, coaching, or group discounts, reach out to us at agiletraining@insight.com.