Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) Essentials is a 2-day workshop designed to provide a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation. Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organisations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organisation can be quite different from what they are used to. This class uses a combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help participants learn how to form and support agile teams to achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioural changes that organisations must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach. A hands-on, activity-based class in which managers and leaders of agile teams gain a strong understanding of how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to create the conditions for great agility. Course Topics: Theory and Principles Improving Value Delivery Value: The “What” Culture: The “Who” Professionalism: The “How” Course Objectives: Development of a common language Understanding of core problems in IT Product and Software Development Professional introduction and establishment of Agile techniques Role management plays in the Agile change of an organisation
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Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS).
A hands-on course for people building products across multiple Scrum teams, using the Nexus framework.
Includes 2 assessment attempts, courseware and free coaching before and after.
We run this course privately for teams
There are no public dates for SPS. We run it for your team, live online or at your offices, on dates that suit you.
- Usually from 6 people
- The same Scrum.org certification and assessment
- Can be shaped around your team's own product
Overview
Students use a case study to learn Nexus and practices that reduce dependencies at scale. A Nexus is 3 to 9 Scrum teams working from one Product Backlog.
What you'll learn
- Why scaled Scrum is still Scrum
- The Nexus framework
- New roles, artifacts and events for scaling
- Organising teams and work
- Managing a Nexus and Nexus+
- Handling common scaling challenges
Who should attend
- Development leads and managers
- Project and programme managers
- Anyone coaching or managing scaled Scrum
What's included
- Taught live by a Professional Scrum Trainer with years of real delivery experience
- Scrum.org courseware and resources to keep
- Free coaching before and after to prepare, and to apply it at work
- 2 assessment attempts for SPS
Everyone who completes SPS gets a password for the SPS assessment (85% pass mark). If you take it within 14 days and score under 85%, your second attempt is free. Scrum.org certifications never expire.
What people say about our classes
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“This is actually the sixth class I've taken from Alex and as always the session was incredibly interesting and inspiring from start to finish.”
Questions
About this courseIs this course right for me?
It suits development leads and managers, project and programme managers, anyone coaching or managing scaled scrum.
How should I prepare for this course?
Before the class, read the Scrum Guide. We send the link with your joining details.
Online or in person?
Either. We run it live online over video, or at your office, on dates that suit your team.
What are the course hours?
Usually 9:00 to 17:00 UK time each day, with breaks. The exact times are shown next to each date.
What happens before the class?
We send your joining details, and any pre-reading, ahead of the class. If a course needs some prior knowledge, it says so under About this course above.
What if I need to miss part of the class or cancel?
You need to attend the whole course to be eligible for the certification. If you can't make it, tell us as soon as you can. Our terms and conditions explain transfers and refunds.
Can I pay by invoice?
Yes. Pay by card at checkout, or by invoice with your PO number. We invoice companies and public bodies.
Can you make adjustments for me?
Yes. Tell us what you need when you book and we will make reasonable adjustments.
Still not sure this is the right course? Ask us and we'll point you to the right one.
Where to go next
Builds on the foundational PSM course. It explores the Scrum Master stances and the conversations and practices that help agility thrive.
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Unlock the power of measurable results with our PAL-EBM course. In this hands-on, one-day workshop, you'll explore the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) framework, designed to help leaders drive better outcomes and agility within their organisations. Through interactive exercises, you'll learn practical techniques to foster an agile mindset and apply EBM practices that support continuous improvement, measurement, and informed decision-making. With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organisations 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 organisations 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 Management (EBM) framework which is an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organisational capabilities, and business results. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organisation's performance and achieve its strategic goals. In this one-day course, participants learn what EBM is and how to apply it through hands-on, activity-based learning. * When offered as a live online class, the course may be broken up into more, shorter days.
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