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Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-e) with Certification

Workshop for leaders and managers to build Agile leadership skills, support Agile teams, and drive organizational transformation, with PAL I certification included.

Intermediate Scrum.org Traditional (Full Day) · Traditional (Half Day) · Immersive

What changes for your team

  • Turn Agile from initiative to operating reality
  • Stop busy teams from producing low-impact work
  • Prove your Agile leadership capability

Immersive training pays back differently to a two-day course. Sessions spread across several weeks mean each idea is applied in your real work before the next one lands — so capability builds instead of fading under a backlog. Why immersive produces better returns →  ·  Other formats available in the panel above.

Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-e) with Certification

Course Code: PAL-e

Overview

Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-e) is a workshop designed for leaders and managers responsible for introducing and establishing Agile methods in their organizations. The course provides foundational knowledge and practical skills to drive successful agile transformation and support agile teams.

Target Audience

  • Product Owners
  • Lean Agile Practitioners
  • Managers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Leaders responsible for Agile transformation

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the theory and principles of Agile leadership
  • Improve value delivery within the organization
  • Distinguish between value (“What”), culture (“Who”), and professionalism (“How”) in Agile contexts
  • Recognize the role of leadership in Agile change and transformation
  • Develop a common language for Agile adoption
  • Identify and address core problems in product development
  • Guide and coach Agile teams to remove impediments
  • Measure and quantify the benefits and impacts of agility
  • Understand how culture and values influence organizational agility
  • Learn approaches to scaling Agile practices

Course Topics

  • Agile Frameworks and Leadership
  • Value Delivery
  • Organizational Culture and Change
  • Professionalism in Agile Teams
  • Scaling Agile
  • Social Technologies in Agile Organizations

Certification

  • Includes two attempts at the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification exam

Frequently Asked Questions

Agile Leadership Essentials is designed for managers, leaders, and anyone responsible for supporting or leading agile teams or driving agile change in their organisation. It’s not for those seeking a basic introduction to Scrum or those without any exposure to Agile concepts.

The course includes a password for the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification exam. If you attempt the exam within 14 days and don’t achieve the required 85% passing score, you get a second attempt at no additional cost.

You’ll tackle challenges like supporting agile teams, removing impediments to agility, adapting leadership approaches, measuring the benefits of agility, and leading the culture and behaviour changes needed for successful agile transformation.

You should already be familiar with Scrum, as this course assumes a foundational knowledge of Agile and Scrum practices. It’s best suited for those who have previously worked in or around Scrum teams.

The PAL I certification included with Agile Leadership Essentials is issued by Scrum.org and is globally recognised by employers and Agile professionals.

What people who took this course said

Martin was an excellent coach and delivered this content in an easy to follow way.

Sean Morris Attended

Well structured interactive and relevant - enjoyed the insight and left with some great reference material

Peter Gee Attended

Excellent training tailored to our business (Professional Services)

Martin is a very experienced and charismatic trainer. He made sure everyone was comfortable and could participate in the course. The pace of the sessions was just right for me and I learned a lot in quite a short period of time. We'd worked with Martin before and he was able to adapt the sessions to our particular business problems; howver the material has relevence to anyone using Scrum for delivering software projects. I'd highly recommend the course and Martin as a trainer.

Mr Burnham Attended

Awesome experience. The course was filled with so many real-life case studies and examples. I really liked the pace of the course. Martin and Russel were complementing each other which made the class very engaging and fun, which was really important if you are attending the class after a full day job.

Mr Gautam Attended · co-delivered with Russell Miller

Insightful and Engaging Agile Leadership Class

The class gives a great perspective on being an Agile Leader. It was very insightful, interesting and engaging. Martin and Russells' vast knowledge was shared with students easily.

Nchimunya Kabunda Attended · co-delivered with Russell Miller

Awesome class

Really eye opening, informative and engaging.

David Hinshelwood Attended · co-delivered with Russell Miller

Great class and enjoyed the conversations. The team really took to the personal situational talk and the trainers were able to not only keep us engaged but make it so much fun.

Ryan Lowe Attended · co-delivered with Jim Sammons

PAL-e : a valuable class to start the agile evolution

I just experienced the power of Martin Hinshelwood & Jim Sammons during a PAL-e private training class. As a leader within an organization that is about to begin an agile evolution, I'll be honest - I was skeptical that our group would get much out of this training session; however, I was proven wrong after the first day. So much so that this class and its' content is now referenced in many of our other leadership meetings. Martin & Jim provided just the right amount of facilitation and guidance to help our group to open up and dig into topics that had been 'floating on the surface'. Our team knows we have a long road a head of us, but having the skills from the PAL-e class in our pockets makes the weight that we have to carry as leaders feel like less.

Lisa Attended · co-delivered with Jim Sammons

I liked the training and Martin made it even more insightful, thank you very much, looking forward to continuing this inspirational journey with agile practices I have learned.

Karina Jarikbayeva Attended

Enjoyed the PALe class very much!

Enjoyed the PALe class very much. The content is very relevant to the situation many current companies are in, and it gives take aways that we can go and use in practice. Martin as a trainer is a great faciliator and story teller, giving real practical examples from his experience. My fellow participants were great to work with when we did group activities, and though we did the course remotely the collaboration tools did allow us to experience it just as it would have been in an physical environment (or maybe even better).

GC Attended

Good exchange on the different dimensions of (agile) leadership + interesting case studies. Martin did an awesome job guiding us through the course and relating our learnings to his personal experience and expertise.

Heiko Schroeder Attended

Course content and tutor fantastic - shame about the co-ordinator (QA), had to visit 4 separate buildings prior to actually reaching the classroom

Leanne Burrows Attended

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