Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E)

Leaders and managers serve as critical enablers by supporting and empowering teams to achieve success through collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. But the role of leaders in an Agile transformation can be different than what they are used to.

The purpose of this two-day training is to provide leaders with a better understanding of their role in facilitating Agile transformations. Participants will:

• Understand how Agility helps improve your organization’s performance

• Learn how a manager or leader helps organizations achieve the benefits of agility

• Gain insight into how an organization's culture and values impact its capacity to leverage the advantages of agility

• Acquire practical skills for helping to guide and coach agile teams and to help them remove impediments

• Know how to measure the benefits and impacts of agility in your organization

Day 1

• Discuss the meaning of Agile and why organizations need it to thrive in a changing world

• Identify potential opportunities, challenges and impact of Agile in terms of business value and the importance for next generation organizations

• Understand techniques to support teams to sustain long-term Agility, including the role of leaders, shifts in thinking and the relationship between complexity and empiricism

Day 2

• Learn to support people to grow and prosper in an Agile way of working

• Discover how to measure and guide agile product delivery

• Discuss ways to scale agility across several teams within the organization while keeping them working together to deliver on a common vision

Are you a manager or do you work in a leadership role and responsible for the introduction of Agile methods and techniques in an IT organization/division? Then this is the training for you!