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Professional Agile Leadership Essentials

Course Summary

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL) is a 2-day hands-on workshop that uses a combination of instruction and hands-on exercises to help managers and other leaders who work directly with agile teams understand how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to improve their agile capabilities.

The workshop provides a foundation for the role that leaders play in creating the conditions for a successful agile transformation.

Course Outline

Theory and Principles
Improving Value Delivery
Value – The “What”
Culture – The “Who”
Professionalism – The “How”
Scaling

Key Learning Outcomes

Understand how being agile adds value to their business and why their support is essential to the team’s success.
Understand core problems in IT Product and Software Development
Receive professional introduction to Agile techniques and ways to lead Agile teams.
Effectively understand the role that management plays in Agile change of an organization.

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for managers and those in leadership roles who are responsible for the introduction and establishment of Agile methods and techniques in an IT organization/division.

Leaders
Managers
Executives
Stakeholders

Considering An Onsite Training Course?

Save time and money by bringing our trainer to you
Everyone hears the same message and learns common Agile & Scrum terminology
The class can accommodate up to 30 participants total
This 2-day course is highly experiential with numerous hands-on exercises

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What Our Clients Say

"The course was not just slide reading but included real-life scenarios"

Brian AlvarezProject Manager

"I highly recommend Gary. He had us rethinking the way we think."

Daniel PeikesBusiness Analayst

"Jonathan was very engaging and provided really good content in a short amount of time. His delivery and mastery of DASSM was impressive!"

Cesar BernardoSenior Technical Program Manager

"I recommend the PSM training. Gary helped us understand both the how and the why."

Mike MoserVP and Global Project Implementation Manager

"Gary didn't just jump in to theories but hit all of our day to day pain points with the Scrum Framework and principles."

Seth DowlingVice President, Northern Trust

"I loved learning about the cycle, steps, and best practices associated with being a scrum master. Very nice job Gary! Enjoyed this training."

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