Professional Agile Leadership Essentials^™ (PAL-E) Certification Training

Today, Agile is no more a buzzword; it is one of the preferred ways to manage projects, especially software development projects. Though Agile has spread across domains, and ‘Agile outside IT’ has already started taking shape in enterprises globally. Scrum is a framework that helps teams collaborate throughout the project lifecycle, learn from experiences, and self-organize, and find new opportunities to improve a product and deliver real value. Professional Agile Leadership Essential (PAL-E) 2-day hands-on workshop prepares you to crack the PAL I exam successfully.

Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) is one of the popular Agile Leadership certifications in the market from Scrum.org that validates an individual’s ability to recognize the importance of how agility adds value to the organization and how to best support, guide, and coach their teams to improve their agile capabilities. It moulds the candidate into a professional who can create conditions for a successful agile transformation. As you know, leaders and managers are critical individuals in helping their organizations to be successful. Yet, their roles as a leader and manager can be quite different from what they used to be in Agile organizations. PAL I certification helps participants how to effectively form, lead, and agile teams to achieve better results.

In this Professional Agile Leadership Essentials training, you will:

• Understand how agility can improve the organization’s performance
• Learn how to form and lead agile teams to help organization achieve the benefits of agility
• Acquire knowledge to act as a change agent and understand how culture and values influence your organization's ability to reap the benefits of agile product delivery approach
• Learn skills to support, guide, and coach agile teams, resolve conflicts among team members, protect them from internal and external impediments, and improve their agile capabilities.
• To help the organization to provide effective business value for projects by aligning everyone’s goals and ways of working
• Understand how to creating a new culture of engagement through continuous improvement and delivery to sustain agility
• Learn how you can measure the benefits and impacts of agility in your organization

There are no prerequisites to attend the Professional Agile Leadership Essentials training or to take up Professional Agile Leadership certification exam. However, it is recommended that participants have basic Agile knowledge in an enterprise set and of Scrum values, principles, and working knowledge of the overall Scrum process (Scrum Guide). Also, you should have knowledge of how to apply Scrum within Scrum Teams.

Job roles that can benefit from PAL I certification training include, but are not limited to:

• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners
• HR Managers
• Operation Managers
• PMO Leads
• Process Champions
• Agile Coaches / Consultants
• Middle Management
• Leaders with Organizational Influence
• Leaders who interact with Agile teams
• Leaders involved with Agile adoption

• Exam Type: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer and True/False
• Number of Questions: 36
• Exam Duration: 60 Mins
• Passing Score: 85%
• Difficulty Level: Intermediate

There is no need to maintain PAL I credential, as the certification is valid for life. Once you pass the PAL I assessment, you will retain that certification lifelong with no additional future costs.

Invensis Learning is accredited by Scrum.org to provide Professional Agile Leadership Essentials training globally. You will be taught by globally renowned Professional Scrum Trainers to earn a certification that prepares you to face the emerging new normal. You will also get lifetime access to a learning management system containing course resources like class recordings, live class schedule etc. Moreover, 98.5% of people who have enrolled for our training have successfully cleared their PAL I exam in the first attempt.

The procedure to take up PAL I certification is as follows

• Attend PAL I certification training provided by accredited training providers such as Invensis Learning (Optional) Register on Scrum.org
• Pay $200 directly on Scrum.org for attempting the exam (This is if you do not need training. If you have enrolled for PAL-E training, the exam fee will be included in the training fee)
• On successful payment, you will receive a password for exam access in stipulated time
• Attempt the PAL I certification exam
• Upon successfully clearing the exam, you will receive the industry-recognized "PAL I" certification, along with a PAL I logo that you can use to identify your achievement.
• Your certification will be valid for lifetime

You can follow the steps listed below to successfully clear the PAL I I certification exam:

• Read the Scrum Guide multiple times and understand the empirical theory underpinning the Scrum framework, & the roles and responsibilities
• Attempt the Scrum Open Assessments multiple times
• Enroll for a Professional Agile Leadership Essential (PAL-E) certification training course from accredited training providers such as Invensis Learning
• Familiarize yourself with the subject areas listed for PAL I assessment
• Read lot of related articles and join Scrum forum discussions
• Attempt the exam with confidence and make sure to keep track time

Yes. At Invensis Learning, you can opt to take up this PAL I course in live-online delivery mode.

Yes. According to Scrum.org, attending a certification training course is not required. If you feel that you already possess a high level of Scrum knowledge, understanding of the concepts in Scrum Guide and how to apply Scrum within teams, you have the option to take the Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) assessment directly. Otherwise, attending a Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) training provided accredited training providers such as Invensis learning is highly recommended

The PAL I certification cost is approximately around 200 USD. The training includes the exam cost for Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) certification.