Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management

The Evidence-Based Management™ (EBM) framework created by Scrum.org is an agile approach to help business leaders, product leaders, and agile leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. 

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. EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve their strategic goals.

In the Professional Agile Leadership™ – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) 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 such as:

• Using empiricism to set and achieve strategic goals, managing the unknown and complexity through

experimentation and by adapting goals along the way

• Creating a cultural environment using clear goals, appropriate measures and trust to enable self-

management and autonomy

• Shifting the conversation away from measuring progress purely through team performance metrics,

toward a focus on customer-centricity and improving customer outcomes

• Driving 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

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

Who Should Attend

PAL-EBM is for professionals in leadership roles (including executives, managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, and consultants) who:

• Are responsible for the success of their product delivery programs or Agile transformations and are seeking a means to measure and demonstrate that success

• Are looking for a framework that identifies improvement areas that increase their business agility, including their time to pivot to meet new challenges and deliver customer value

• 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)

• Want to articulate goals and measures in a way that fosters self-management and empower their teams to understand the connection between their work and the value their organization is providing and customer is receiving

• Want to be more effective in how they measure success by using Agile measures rather than traditional measurement models (including the use of velocity)

Attendees should have read the Evidence-Based Management Guide, have an understanding of Agile practices and a desire to move away from traditional, (plan-driven,) ways of working and measurement models, however they do not need specific experience with Scrum. 

Scrum.org's Professional Agile Leadership- Essentials course helps leaders understand how to best support their Agile teams and is ideal preparation for PAL-EBM, but is not a prerequisite. 

Scrum.org's Professional Scrum Product Owner and Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced courses teach Product Owners (and Scrum Masters coaching Product Owners) how to deliver value and can be a great complement to the PAL-EBM course.

Assessment and 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.

This is a live virtual course. Participants will receive details on how to join the course after registration.

Note for participants residing outside Australia

Please email scrumcourses@magicagile.com to receive an invoice to pay for your tickets without GST