In this course designed for managers and leaders of agile teams, gain a practical understanding of how to best support, guide and coach your team(s) to create conditions for greater agility. Understand the role that leaders play and be prepared to take action in creating a successful agile environment.
The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials™ (PAL-E) is a 2-day hands-on course that uses a combination of instruction and hands-on exercises to help managers and other leaders who work directly with agile teams understand how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to improve their agile capabilities.
The course provides 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 course 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.
The course covers the following key topics:
To succeed in a changing world, organisations need to become more agile, more responsive to customer needs and market changes. This course will equip leaders and managers to help their organisations change by providing participants with:
You will understand where and how agility can help your organisation improve, by addressing challenges you can solve in no other way. You will also understand how agile teams work and what you, as a manager or leader, can do to help them to improve. You will also be able to quantify the benefits of improving the agility of your organisation through concrete measures.
The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials course is designed for managers and those in leadership roles who are responsible for the introduction and establishment of Agile methods and techniques in an IT organisation/division. It is targeted at leaders at ALL levels of the organisation, from mid-to-senior management all the way to CEO.
In addition, the course is ideally suited for Agile Coaches and Chapter Leads. All these roles are responsible in various ways for providing the tools, boundaries, guidelines, strategy and vision for the success and engagement of people and teams. This course is designed to help them understand how they can best embody agile leadership to lead their people and teams to success. Agile leadership is not about hierarchy but rather a way of leading that exists in all levels of the organisation.
All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) assessment.
The industry-recognised PAL I certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. 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.
Use customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve your product and organisation's performance and strategic goals
For senior and emerging leaders willing to develop the capabilities needed to thrive through continuous change.
The starting point to adopt business agility and bring innovation outside of the software delivery space.