Training: Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management

Duration and language:

Onsite/online training - 8h - 1 day (including breaks).

Training is provided in English. A Polish version is also available.

Target group:

The training is intended for:

• organization management board,
• department/team leaders and managers,
• change agents, agile coaches,
• Scrum Masters, Product Owners,
• internal trainers, Agile consultants.

Those who want to grow the organization in the spirit of Agile and Lean.

Training preconditions:

Participants should familiarize themselves with the Evidence-Based Management Guide, understand Agile practices and be open to new approaches to experiment and measure. Prior participation in the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials™ training could be a good introduction, but it is not mandatory. Participants also do not need any particular experience with Scrum, basics are sufficient.

For online training, it is required to be computer literate and meet technical requirements: https://valkir.pl/en/online-training/.

Price includes:

• Preparation and training performed by an expert, accredited Scrum.org Trainer (PST), an experienced Agile and Lean consultant.
• Effective training in a small group - on average 6-12 people.
• Accredited Scrum.org training materials and requisites.
• License for performing the training (payable to Scrum.org).
• A 200$ voucher for the PAL-EBM assessment and certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in English).
• In case of taking the PAL-EBM assessment within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.
• 7 Personal Development Units (PDUs) for PMI PMP members.
• Lunch and catering (drinks and snacks). Not applicable to online training.
• Trainer’s travel and expenses (T&E). Not applicable to online training.

Certification:

Each participant completing the training will receive an non-expiring voucher to attempt the PAL-EBM assessment. The assessment (in English) takes place online on Scrum.org website. In case of taking the PAL-EBM exam within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.

Training description:

What is the Professional Agile Leadership™ – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) training?

Professional Agile Leadership™ – Evidence-Based Management is an accredited training from Scrum.org that builds competence in the use of the Evidence-Based Management™ (EBM) framework. It is an agile approach designed to help leaders lead teams to improve business value delivery for the customer and constantly increase organizational efficiency.

In a world of rapidly changing customer needs, organizations must quickly adapt to new challenges and opportunities. This requires information and data that will help increase business agility. Unfortunately, organizations that develop products in an agile way usually use the classic approach to managing goals and measuring the progress toward assumed plans with lagging indicators.

Evidence-Based Management focuses on delivering value for the customer and conscious experimentation in order to improve the effectiveness of the organization and help achieve its strategic goals. Each participant will complete the training with his/her own plan for making changes in the context of creating goals in a reality of high uncertainty.

Who’s behind this?

Ken Schwaber i Jeff Sutherland uważani są za ojców Scruma, chociaż samo podejście bazuje na samoorganizujących się zespołach, spopularyzowanym przez słynną publikację “The New New Product Development Game” Hirotaka Takeuchi i Ikujiro Nonaka, wydaną w Harvard Business Review w 1986 r.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

Training agenda:

1. Introduction to Evidence Based Management
   • The origin of the Evidence Based Management concept.
   • An overview of how having clear goals for yourself, your team, and your organization supports trust.
   • Understanding how our behaviors affect transparency, inspection and adaptation during goals creation, and how this relates to Evidence-Based Management.
    
2. Goals
   • Change in approach to goal setting over the years.
   • Presentation of the types and dependencies between goals according to EBM.
   • Brainstorming: How do you recognize a good goal? How to approach dysfunctional goals?
   • Goal outcomes: What change do we want to see when we reach our goal?
    
3. Metrics
   • Principles of designing metrics consistent with the Agile approach.
   • Categories and the right selection of metrics for the chosen direction to achieve the goal.
   • Understanding Key Value Areas for improving market value and operational capability.
   • Exercise: Designing a system of metrics in terms of different types of goals.
    
4. Empiricism
   • Empiricism - what it is and its meaning in building goals.
   • Agility in forming hypotheses, experimenting and validated learning.
   • Overview of inspection and adaptation in Evidence-Based Management.
   • Exercise: Action plan within the case study, discussion and verification of hypotheses.
    
5. The process of introducing EBM in the organization
   • Individual reflection: Where can we start making changes?
   • How can EBM help you introduce changes?
   • Forming change agents and building communities in change.
   • Dead ends, pitfalls and hazards when introducing EBM.
    
6. Training summary

Training goals:

What are the challenges we address?

• How can your organization operate more efficiently thanks to agility?
• How does empiricism support goal setting in an organization?
• How to measure the benefits and impact of agility in your organization?
• How to be more effective in measuring success with Agile metrics
• How do behaviors and attitudes affect metrics and empiricism in goal setting?
• How and where can you start making changes in your organization right away?

What benefits do you get?

The training allows participants to better understand their organization, the challenges it faces and more effectively steer its growth. It contains theoretical knowledge and practical methods taken from the idea of ​​leadership, complexity theory, self-organization/self-management, entrepreneurship, business analysis, change management and many other areas.

As a result of this training, participants from different areas of the organization will:

• know and understand aspects needed to effectively stimulate organization growth and teams towards agility,
• acquire skills necessary to apply mentioned methods in practice,
• understand how and why new methods can positively affect their work.

Whenever possible, topics presented during the training are explained through a game/exercise that allows to apply the learned practice or principle in the business context. Exercise or game usually ends with a debrief and discussion on how to adapt the presented practices to the participants’ context.