Lead Agile teams more effectively and strengthen organizational agility using Professional Agile Leadership practices.

Learn how leaders can support Agile transformation initiatives, improve team effectiveness, measure value delivery and apply Agile leadership principles to create high-performing and adaptive organizations.

  • Why get trained: Learn how to apply Agile leadership principles, value-driven decision-making and organizational agility practices to support high-performing Agile teams.
  • Why it matters: Agile leadership capabilities help organizations improve adaptability, collaboration and delivery outcomes in fast-changing business environments.
  • Who should attend: Managers, executives, Agile leaders, Scrum Masters and business leaders responsible for leading Agile teams and transformation initiatives.

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Overview

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) 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.

Leaders and managers are critical enablers in helping their organizations be successful, yet the role of leaders and managers in an agile organization can be quite different from what they are used to.

This workshop uses a  combination of instruction and team-based exercises to help participants learn how to form and support agile teams to  achieve better results, and how to lead the cultural and behavioral changes that organizations must make to reap the benefits of an agile product delivery approach.

Skills Covered

To succeed in a changing world, organizations need to become more agile, more responsive to customer needs and market changes. This workshop will equip leaders and managers to help their organizations change by providing participants with:

  • An understanding of how agility can help you improve your organization’s performance
  • An understanding of how you, as a manager or leader, can help your organization achieve the benefits of agility
  • An understanding of how culture and values influence your organization’s ability to reap the benefits of agility
  • Practical skills for helping to guide and coach agile teams, and to help them remove impediments
  • An understanding of how to measure the benefits and impacts of agility in your organization

Prerequisites

None

Target Audience

The Professional Agile Leadership Essentials 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.

Course Curriculum

  • Module 1: Theory and Principles
  • Module 2: Improving Value Delivery
  • Module 3: Value – The “What”
  • Module 4: Culture – The “Who”
  • Module 5: Professionalism – The “How”
  • Module 6: Scaling

Dates & Locations

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July 20, 2026 - July 21, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
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RM 4500

October 14, 2026 - October 15, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
Exam:
Included
RM 4500
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Exam & Certification

All participants completing the Professional Agile Leadership – Essentials course will receive a password to attempt the Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification assessment. PAL-E class participants who attempt the PAL I 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.

Training & Certification Guide

  • Fee: $200 USD per attempt
  • Passing score: 85%
  • Time limit: 60 minutes
  • Number of Questions: 36
  • Format: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer and True/False
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Language: English only
  • Free Credly digital credential included
  • PAL Subject Areas
  • Required course: None
  • Recommended course: Professional Agile Leadership™ Essentials (PAL-E)
  • Practice assessments: Agile Leadership Open, Scrum Open
  • Ways to Learn More to help you prepare
  • Passwords have no expiration date, but are valid for one attempt only

What is the difference between Agile and Scrum?

In 2025’s dynamic digital landscape, Agile and Scrum remain foundational to effective project delivery. Agile is a flexible mindset/principles-based philosophy, while Scrum is a structured framework to implement Agile. This refined guide explores their key differences with clarity and relevance to modern software and business teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

APS-SD: Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development

Applying Professional Scrumfor Software Development (APS-SD) is a 3-day hands-on course where students experience how to deliver quality software using Scrum with Agile and DevOps practices. Students work in Scrum Teams over a series of Sprints, creating code on a realistic software system to learn Scrum while using Scrum.

PSK: Professional Scrum with Kanban

Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum practitioners how to apply Kanban practices to their work without changing Scrum.

PSMII: Professional Scrum Master II

The Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) course is a 2-day Advanced Scrum Master course designed to support experienced Scrum Masters in their professional journeys.

PSPO: Professional Scrum Product Owner

Learn Professional Product Ownership. Prove Your Product Owner Knowledge.

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) is an hands-on, activity-based course where students explore Professional Scrum and the role of the Product Owner.

PSU: Professional Scrum With User Experience

Professional Scrumwith User Experience (PSU) is a 2-day hands-on course where students who already have a fundamental understanding of Scrum and some experience using it will learn how to integrate modern UX practices, (UX is more than UI) into the way they are working in Scrum and how to work most effectively within Scrum Teams.

PAL-EBM: Professional Agile Leadership Evidence-Based Management

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.

 

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