The Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management™ training helps participants understand how to use the Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach to improve business outcomes, operational capabilities, and the value delivered to customers.
Many organizations either do not use metrics at all or apply them incorrectly, which can create the illusion that decisions are based on hard data and are therefore correct. Participants learn how to set strategic goals, select appropriate measures for achieving them, formulate hypotheses about improvement opportunities, and run experiments to validate these hypotheses.
The training demonstrates how to apply the EBM framework in practice – enabling participants to choose the right measures for their goals and the organization’s current context, consider key aspects, and make decisions that support achieving business objectives.
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Purpose of the training
- Understanding the essential aspects of goals and measures and how they influence behaviours and an organization’s culture and values
- Helping organizations embrace empiricism as a leadership approach. Using experimentation to incrementally steer toward the organization’s goals
- Understanding how goals and trust act together to enable autonomy, transparency, and value delivery
- Understanding how to use EBM and its Key Value Areas to focus measurements on improving market value and operational capabilities
Target group
- Professionals in leadership roles, including executives, managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, coaches, and consultants
- Individuals responsible for the success of their product delivery programs or Agile transformations, who are seeking a means to measure and demonstrate that success.
- Professionals looking for a framework that supports the identification of improvement areas and increases business agility
- Leaders and practitioners who want to help their organization embrace empiricism and experimentation to find solutions for complex problems, where more is unknown than known or the situation changes rapidly
- Individuals who want to articulate goals and measures in a way that fosters self-management and empowers their teams to understand the connection between their work and the value their organization is providing and customers are receiving
- Agile practitioners who want to be more effective in how they measure success by using Agile measures rather than traditional measurement models (including the use of velocity)
Note: Training materials and the certification exam are in English; therefore, a working proficiency in English is required to understand the presented concepts
Benefits
- Use empiricism to set and achieve strategic goals, managing the unknown and complexity through experimentation and by adapting goals along the way
- Create a cultural environment using clear goals, appropriate measures and trust to enable self-management and autonomy
- Shift the conversation away from measuring progress purely through team performance metrics, toward a focus on customer-centricity and improving customer outcomes
- Drive operational improvements by using four Key Value Areas (Unrealized Value, Current Value, Time to Market, and the Ability to Innovate) as lenses for evidence-based decision-making
Exam and certification
Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management™ (PAL – EBM) exam details:
- multiple-choice, multiple-response questions test, including true/false questions,
- number of questions: 40,
- pass threshold: 85% (34 out of 40 possible points),
- language of the exam: English,
- current list of available exam languages can be found on the Accreditor’s website,
- duration: 60 minutes,
- mode: online,
- date: post training,
- open book – candidates are allowed to use „Scrum Guide”,
- validity of the certificate: indefinite,
- the participant who scores the necessary number of points in the exam is awarded the international certificate in electronic form.
Note! As part of the PAL – EBM training, each participant is entitled to two attempts at the PAL – EBM exam, provided that the first attempt is taken within 14 days after the training. If the participant does not achieve the required passing score of 85%, they will receive a second attempt free of charge and with no time limit.
Training programme
Course outline:
- How do metrics influence behaviors? How can they harm us, and how can they help?
- Case Study: how a lack of understanding of business goals and strategy can undermine our chances of success.
- Setting goals at different levels and validating their understanding. Where should we measure their achievement?
- Case Study: which metric, and when?
- The Evidence-Based Management framework with its 4 Key Value Areas, where setting goals is most impactful.
- Which metrics fit which Key Value Area? An overview of 30 metrics that can be applied within the EBM framework.
- plus, multiple Case Studies for participants to work through.
