Enterprise Agility for the Modern Agile Executive

PAL-E™

Certification by SCRUM.org™

4 Videos

Leadership

Skill Level

2 Days

Duration

English

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Overview

An agile enterprise can reduce costs, improve quality and customer satisfaction, and enable executives to pivot strategies faster. How can you make it a reality?

Over two-days, this course covers the advanced thinking needed by leaders to effectively pivot quicker, deliver faster and reduce costs by mastering systems thinking with this certification for executives and senior leadership.

The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognised Professional Agile Leadership certification exam (PAL-E).

Completing this course will help you:

Pivot faster to change
Reduce the cost of operations
Improve quality and reduce rework
Understand how agility can help you improve your organisation’s performance
Reduce red-tape and time to make decisions through decentralisation
Understand the agility of your programs and teams
Use agile metrics to understand impacts and outcomes over outputs and deliverables
Apply Lean-Agile portfolio management
Agile operating models for both software and business initiatives

Who is the course for?

Executives and Senior Managers
Directors and Assistant Directors in the public service
Product Managers, and Business Owners
Solution Managers, Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, PMO personnel, and Process Leads
Team leads and managers who want to learn more about Scrum
Business stakeholders who work with Scrum Teams

Learning Path

Day One - Why agile matters

Applying the Agile Manifesto to the entire value chain
Agile and improving predictability of work through controlling variability – team size, Sprint size, and sustainable pace
Decision-making

Day One - Developing people

Self-management and self-organisation
Assessing agility of programs and teams
Centralisation vs decentralisation of decision-making with Management 3.0 and “delegation poker”

Day One - Measuring agility

Understanding agile behaviour
Agile assessments with Agile IQ®
Agile IQ executive dashboard
Agile metrics with Evidence Based Management (EBM)
Helping the Product Owner to make things transparent

Day Two - Growing agility

Hiring agile vs growing agile
Skills to look for when hiring
ZXM’s Agile Academy for growing internal capability
ZXM Agile Capability Maturity Model and Agile IQ®

Day Two - Challenges of an Agile Leader

Working in a hybrid world
Managing agility through executive backlogs

Day Two - Agile operating models for product management

Agile product management vs project/program management
Managing work through cascading backlogs
Moving from capability silos to capability development
Scaled agile frameworks – Nexus™, SAFe® and Scrum @ Scale™

What people are saying

"Content is appropriate for PAL-E and Mia is an experienced trainer who is capable of effectively running the course and she used the tools at her disposal well (e.g. Miro)."

"A great coaching and experience"

CERTIFICATION

This course is delivered by certified executive trainer Mia Horrigan – PST , Agile and Program Agility Executive and Chief Operations Officer (COO) for ZXM.

People who attend this class and pass the exam will receive the PAL-E certification from Scrum.org. After attending the two-day course, you’ll receive a key to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership (PAL – E) assessment. PAL-E participants who attempt the PAL – E 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.

Assessment

The assessment covers topics spanning 14 Focus Areas defined in the Professional Scrum Competencies . Attendees are recommended to read the material on Scrum.org’s Suggested Reading page.

The assessment is in place to ensure you understand how Scrum Teams can benefit from having a leader reinforce and support agile practices and therefore detailed in its questions and required answers. Many questions ask the test-taker to think about or interpret how they would handle scenarios and to apply their own experience along with content from the PAL-E course and the PAL subject areas.