The Need for Evidence-based Management.

Who Should Attend this class?

The Professional Agile Leadership w/ Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) workshop is for professionals in leadership roles (including executives, managers, PMOs, Chiefs of Staff, OKR Champions, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, coaches, and consultants) who:

• • Are responsible for implementing and supporting a strategic alignment framework such as OKRs in their organization.
  • 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) – applying agile/agility principles beyond the Product/IT organization.
  • 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 and be actively looking for alternatives to traditional, plan-driven ways of working and measurement models. Scrum/Agile experience is NOT assumed or needed.

What we will cover in the PAL-EBM workshop

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 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.
  • The knowledge participants will learn will help them implement and improve the usage of popular goal-setting frameworks such as OKRs in their organization. OKRs will be discussed explicitly in this PAL-EBM class.

PAL-EBM 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

PAL-EBM Professional Scrum 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.