Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials
Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) is a two-day course for leaders and managers who want to understand how leadership can create the conditions for greater agility. Learn how to support self-managing teams, develop people, remove organizational impediments, and measure the impact of agility.
Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials (PAL-E) is a two-day course for leaders, managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and others who want to understand what leadership looks like in an agile organization.
Agility changes more than delivery practices. It affects how decisions are made, how teams are supported, how people develop, and how organizations respond to uncertainty. In this course, you will examine the conditions that help self-managing teams succeed and the role leaders play in creating and sustaining those conditions.
You will explore why agility matters, how complexity influences management approaches, and how leadership needs to shift when teams are expected to take greater ownership. The class also looks at motivation, delegation, values, organizational impediments, agile maturity, and the relationship between leadership behavior and team performance.
A further focus is measuring agility. You will consider how to evaluate progress and outcomes without reducing agility to activity metrics, and how evidence can help leaders understand whether changes are actually improving organizational performance.
PAL-E is hands-on and activity-based. Discussion, case work, and team exercises connect the concepts to situations leaders encounter when supporting Scrum Teams and organizational change. This is not an introductory Scrum course, so previous familiarity with Scrum will help you get more from the experience.
The course includes access to the Scrum.org Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) assessment and provides a practical foundation for leading in a way that supports learning, accountability, and greater organizational agility.
Overview
Who it's for
PAL-E is designed for leaders and managers who influence the environment in which Agile teams work. It is especially relevant when leadership behavior, organizational structures, or management practices affect a team’s ability to improve.
- Senior leaders and executives sponsoring organizational agility
- Line managers and leaders responsible for one or more Scrum Teams
- Managers responsible for developing people
- Product Owners and Scrum Masters who want to understand the leadership environment around their teams
- Coaches and change leaders supporting Agile adoption
Learning outcomes
- Understand how agility can improve organizational performance and help respond to complexity and change.
- Recognize the challenges Agile teams face and how leaders can remove impediments beyond the team’s control.
- Explore the shift in leadership and management needed to support self-managing teams.
- Learn how motivation, values, clear goals, delegation, and situational leadership support people and team development.
- Assess progress and measure the benefits and impact of agility without relying only on activity metrics.
Programme
Good to know
Prerequisites
No formal certification is required. PAL-E is not an introductory Scrum course, so reading the Scrum Guide and having prior familiarity with Scrum are recommended.
What's included in the course
- Course materials
- Up to 2 attempts at the PAL I assessment
- 2 hours of 1:1 free coaching after the training
- 14 PMI PDU credits
- Post-course support by email
Practical information
For online classes, we use Zoom for the live sessions and Miro for exercises, collaboration, and group work. For onsite classes, the exact location and practical details will be shared by email before the course. Please wait until the course is confirmed before making any travel or accommodation arrangements.
Trainer
Franco is an experienced trainer, ICF accredited coach, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in product development, software development, leadership, Agile ways of working, and organizational change.
Policies and conditions
Cancellation and refund
Refunds are available on request up to 20 days before the course, with the right to deduct any incurred fees or costs. After that, refunds or transfers to another course date are not possible; however, you may nominate another person to attend in your place, provided you notify us by email before the course starts. If the class is cancelled by us, you will receive a full refund, but no compensation for any other losses.
Certification
This is an official Scrum.org course. All participants who complete Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials receive a password for the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) assessment. The assessment contains 36 questions, has a 60-minute time limit, and requires a score of at least 85% to pass. Participants who take the assessment within 14 days of receiving their complimentary password and do not achieve the required score are eligible for one additional attempt at no extra cost. Scrum.org certifications are valid for life and do not require renewal.