Many Agile transformations struggle because organizations continue measuring success through traditional output-focused indicators. Teams are evaluated on delivery predictability, utilization or project completion, while the real questions remain unanswered: Are we delivering meaningful value? Are customers benefiting? Are we becoming more adaptable? Are our investments leading to better outcomes?

Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management introduces a practical framework for improving decision-making under uncertainty. Participants learn how Evidence-Based Management (EBM) supports organizations in continuously measuring, inspecting and adapting based on evidence rather than assumptions or fixed long-term plans.

The training explores how leaders can create environments that encourage experimentation, learning and transparency while balancing strategic goals with empirical feedback. Participants work with the four Key Value Areas of Evidence-Based Management: Current Value, Unrealized Value, Time-to-Market and Ability to Innovate. Through practical exercises and discussions, they learn how these perspectives help organizations better understand both current performance and future opportunities.

The course also addresses common leadership challenges in Agile organizations, including measuring productivity in knowledge work, aligning stakeholders around outcomes instead of outputs, reducing organizational noise, and creating healthier systems for continuous improvement. Participants explore how metrics can support learning and decision-making without becoming targets that drive undesirable behavior.

Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management is particularly valuable for leaders operating in complex environments where predictability is limited and adaptability is essential. The training supports executives, managers, transformation leaders, Product Managers, Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters who want to strengthen outcome-oriented leadership and improve organizational effectiveness through empiricism.

The workshop combines theory with practical application and encourages participants to reflect on their own organizational context throughout the training.

Program

This is an interactive instructor-led training focused on evidence-based leadership, organizational agility and empiricism in complex environments.

Understanding Evidence-Based Management

Participants explore why many traditional management approaches struggle in complex product development environments. The training introduces empiricism and the foundations of Evidence-Based Management as a framework for continuous improvement and strategic decision-making.

Measuring Value Instead of Activity

Participants learn how to shift from output-oriented steering toward measuring customer and business outcomes. The workshop explores the four Key Value Areas of EBM and examines how organizations can use evidence to guide investment decisions and improvement initiatives.

Leadership in Complex Environments

The training examines the role of leadership in creating adaptive organizations. Participants discuss organizational impediments, experimentation, psychological safety, transparency and the importance of shortening feedback loops.

Metrics, Evidence and Decision-Making

Through practical exercises and discussions, participants explore how to select meaningful metrics, avoid dysfunctional measurement behavior and use evidence to support better conversations and prioritization decisions across teams and leadership levels.

Applying Evidence-Based Management

Participants apply Evidence-Based Management concepts to realistic organizational scenarios and reflect on how to introduce empiricism and outcome-oriented thinking within their own organizations.

The format encourages active participation, discussion and reflection throughout the workshop.

After This Training

Participants can:

• Understand the principles and purpose of Evidence-Based Management
• Apply empiricism to organizational decision-making
• Measure value and outcomes instead of focusing only on output and activity
• Use the four Key Value Areas to guide improvement initiatives
• Improve strategic alignment through evidence-informed conversations
• Identify metrics that support learning and adaptability
• Recognize common measurement anti-patterns and unintended consequences
• Support experimentation and continuous improvement in complex environments
• Strengthen leadership practices that enable organizational agility
• Create healthier feedback loops between strategy, delivery and customer outcomes

Together We Continue Building

At Connected Movement, we believe leadership development becomes most valuable when it connects directly to real organizational challenges. During and after the training, participants continue exchanging experiences, insights and practical lessons with peers and practitioners from the Connected Community.

Together with experienced Agile leaders, Product Managers and transformation practitioners, we help organizations strengthen evidence-informed leadership and build environments where learning, adaptability and value creation can continuously evolve.

Certification

After completing the training, participants receive a password to take the Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management assessment from Scrum.org. Upon passing the assessment, participants earn the internationally recognized PAL-EBM certification.

The assessment:

• consists of 40 multiple-choice questions
• has a time limit of 60 minutes
• requires a passing score of 85%
• is taken online
• is available in English