Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) Course Overview:

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials workshop is a two-day program designed to empower leaders, managers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters of Agile teams. Participants will gain essential knowledge and skills to facilitate organizational change in an Agile context.

The workshop covers the following key areas:

1. Overview of Agile: Participants will understand what Agile is and why it is crucial for organizations to thrive in a changing world.
2. Identifying opportunities and challenges: Participants will learn how to identify potential opportunities, challenges, and impacts of Agile in terms of business value. This understanding is vital for the success of the next-generation organization.
3. Sustaining long-term agility: Participants will gain insights into techniques for supporting teams to maintain long-term agility. This includes the crucial role that leaders play, shifts in thinking, and the relationship between complexity and empiricism.
4. Developing people in an Agile way of working: The workshop emphasizes the importance of continuous development and growth of individuals within an Agile environment. Participants will explore ways to foster the growth and prosperity of people in an Agile way of working.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with the necessary knowledge and tools to lead Agile teams effectively, drive organizational change, and support the development of individuals in an Agile working environment.

Intended Audience:

• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners

Course Objectives:

Leaders will understand how agility adds value to their organization and why their support in creating the proper culture is essential to success. They will be prepared to support and enable teams by providing guidance and removing impediments that are beyond the team’s ability to address.

• Professional introduction to Agile, and connecting agility with what really matters to the success of your organization.
• Understand how leading with Agile principles and values creates better outcomes, and overcome many organizational challenges.
• Understand how to create a culture of engagement in continuous improvement & delivery, and an accountability model for the modern-day organization to sustain agility.