Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management

Professional Agile Leadership Evidence-Based Management © Scrum.Org All Rights Reserved 

A Professional Scrum Training Course Created By Ken Schwaber And Scrum.

With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organizations need information and evidence that helps them adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities so that they can deliver greater value and achieve true business agility. Yet often organizations that use Agile product development techniques use traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static
metrics.

That is why Scrum.org created the Evidence-Based Management™ (EBM) framework which is an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve its strategic goals.

Course Overview

In the Professional Agile Leadership™ – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) one day* course, participants learn what EBM is and how to apply it through hands-on, activity-based learning. Through a series of exercises participants learn techniques that support a more agile mindset:

• 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

* When offered in person, this course is generally delivered over two consecutive days. When offered as a Live Virtual Class, the course may be broken up into more, shorter days.

Course Learning Objectives

• Understand the essential aspects of goals and measures and how they influence behaviors and an organization’s culture and values
• Help organizations embrace empiricism as a leadership approach. Using experimentation to incrementally steer toward the organization’s goals
• An appreciation for how goals and trust act together to enable autonomy, transparency, and value delivery
• Correlate market leadership and sustainability to curiosity, adaptation, and empiricism
• Understand how to use EBM and its KVAs to focus measurements on improving market value and operational capabilities

Why Agile-Ity

Agile-ity provides Scrum.org licensed trainers with 25+ years of technical product delivery experience in domains ranging from banking to pharmaceutical and defense.  We help people gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience using the Scrum framework, other agile practices, and OKRs to align the Strategic, Intermediate and Tactical goals of their organizations.
 

Why Scrum.org

Scrum.org training provides a hands-on, activity-based learning experience using a consistent set of materials around the world no matter which of our Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) is teaching the course. Each course explores real-world challenges to help students apply what they learn in their roles once back at work.

Assessment Certification

All participants completing this course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) assessment. The industry-recognized PAL-EBM certification requires a minimum passing score of 85%. PAL-EBM class participants who attempt the PAL-EBM 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.

Where can I contact the trainer with further questions?
You can email John at john@agile-ity.com

Some recent training clients:

About The Trainer

John Gillespie is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. He is one of only a few Scrum trainers globally able to offer the full range of Scrum.org courses. John has numerous LinkedIn recommendations from happy clients.

John has better than 10 years of experience with Scrum and 25+ years of experience in delivering complex software systems. John led the development of Fleet Bank's (Bank of America) first online banking application and more than 10 lottery system implementations globally. His classes are filled with numerous examples he has garnered on the front lines of software development over the past 25 years. 

Over the last 10 years, John has been guiding organizations including Oracle, Bank of America, US Navy, Wells Fargo, Publix, BNY-Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, Walmart, Department of Homeland Security and Warner Music.

He is based in New York City and offers Scrum training courses with certification all over the world. He trains and coaches Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development Teams and organizations in their transition to Scrum and Agile.

John is always happy to arrange private training for your company. Please reach out to find out more.

What Clients Have To Say About John:

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Professional Scrum Master training taught by John in conjunction with Scrum.org. John is one of the most effective and concise instructors I have had the pleasure of being taught by. He was able to take the potentially overwhelming amount of agile framework information and deliver it to a class of people who had an extremely diverse set of backgrounds and skill levels. He was able to take complex subjects, explain them directly and with emphasis on the most important and functional information. I left this short course feeling extremely well prepared to start engaging the Scrum framework professionally and to guide other teammates on its use as well. I look forward to hopefully enrolling in more of his classes as the opportunity presents itself professionally. Thank you, John!

Gavin Frei Merchant Success Manager at Shopify Plus

I had the opportunity to learn from John in his Professional Scrum Master class. John was not only extremely knowledgeable about the framework of SCRUM, but he brought years of experience consulting various organizations to achieve their vision. The experience and stories breathed life into the material and made the class that much more impactful to my learning. I absolutely recommend John to anyone who is interested in learning how to cultivate high-performing teams through the SCRUM framework.

Jared Blake, PMP, PSM I  Business Program Manager at Microsoft

John is a very knowledgeable instructor.  He provides a clear presentation with examples and insightful feedback on problems we are facing in our organization.  I look forward to attending more Scrum courses.                                        

Jose Awarado Senior Business Analyst at Shell

I took the Professional Scrum Master certification training from John. This training is for folks who would like to understand the basics of Scrum framework and dive deep in roles/responsibilities for a scrum master. John is an amazing teacher who focuses on explaining the course with examples and use cases. He is always open to questions and encourages them (either in class or over email). He made the entire learning process very interactive, which made it so easy to understand. I highly recommend taking the class with him. Best, Swati 

Swati Gupta Senior Product Manager at Oracle

John has an encyclopedic knowledge of what it takes to be a Scrum Master, as well as plenty of real-world examples to contextualize that knowledge. After spending the two days with John during his course, I was able to not only pass the PSM I exam but more importantly, I was able to bring his guidance back to my organization and help us improve our own practices. It also helps that he is a nice guy, a patient instructor, and impossible to stump with a question. I recommend John to anyone looking to improve their knowledge of Scrum.

Brecken Hipp QA Analyst at Dataworks Development, Inc.

John was a very patient and informative instructor. He made sure that everyone understood every concept before moving forward, and took the time to answer any questions that were asked with great detail.

Thank you for the great class!

Hanna Heaps, PSPO Business Product Analyst at PayScale, Inc.

John is a skilled Scrum instructor. His presentation makes everyone feel comfortable, no matter their skill level or experience; John's disarming charm accepts everyone where they are. He also has a deep well of real-life experience with project management that he humbly draws from to refresh whatever content he's dispensing. A skilled practitioner and trainer, making the world better one Scrum at a time.

Tommy Poole 

I took John's Professional Scrum Product Owner course to sharpen my Scrum/Agile knowledge and to learn more about the Product Owner role in a Scrum environment. John is extremely knowledgeable and was very accommodating to the class. You could tell he really is passionate about teaching the subject. He made sure to answer all of our questions and provided numerous resources to help advance our Scrum knowledge. Additionally, he gave useful advice and real-life insights on how we could improve our Scrum practices at our jobs (and made me realize how little Scrum we actually exercise). I would highly recommend his courses if you're interested in furthering your career in Scrum.

Brandon Kumagai Scrum Master at Elektrobit (EB)

John is an amazing Agile coach and trainer. His two days of training ( BNY employee training) was priceless in learning agile. I still remember how confused and resistant faces (to adapt to agile) changed to smiles, and everyone relaxed. This was only possible due to the way John encouraged questions and patiently cleared each doubt without being too focused on completing his training modules for day 1. Once the group doubts were cleared, the next day we not only finished all the training modules but had time for questions. I for one thoroughly enjoyed his coaching. Even after the training, he was fully available to hand hold anytime and help us succeed as the organization worked its way to adapt to Agile. He is a great trainer, mentor and someone who made me love Agile and made it so easy for me to understand and apply. I thoroughly recommend John to anyone who wants to go the Agile way, both individual or organization. 

Pinky Padi Lead Mgr- App Devp (VP) at BNY Mellon

John provided our group of 8 new Product Owners an excellent course. We discussed real-life scenarios, John's experiences, and how to put the classroom material together with his experience into our business model. It was an excellent experience and was the first time most of the people in our group had received any exposure to any of the concepts related to a Product Owner. Additionally, this course provided the material and requirements necessary to pass the 80-question Professional Scrum Product Owner I exam. During the course and the day, after the course ended, I studied the provided materials as well as the online materials offered by Scrum.org. I passed the exam one day after the course ended! Thanks for your expertise and for such a great course, John! 

Peter Gorman Program Manager at U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Customs and Border Protection(CBP)

Contact John:

Phone:      516-317-8301
Email:     john@agile-ity.com
Website:   www.proscrumtraining.com
 

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