The Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management (PAL-EBM) assessment is available to anyone who wishes to validate that they are a leader with an advanced level of understanding about how an empirical approach helps organizations to continuously improve.
The Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management (PAL-EBM) assessment includes questions from the following focus areas as defined in the Professional Scrum Competencies as well as several additional topics (listed below) which are not specifically named in the Scrum Competency Model.
Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework:
Managing Products with Agility:
Product Value - ways to evaluate the value that a product delivers.
Business Strategy - applying the concept of Unrealized Value to pursuing potential opportunities.
Stakeholders & Customers - applying the concepts of Current Value, Unrealized Value to stakeholder and customer management.
Evolving the Agile Organization:
Portfolio Planning - understanding the concept of applying lean and agile principles for investing in pursuit of greatest business benefit.
Evidence Based Management™- understanding the concepts of the EBM framework.
Additional Topics:
Forming & Evaluating Hypotheses - running short, focused experiments to make progress toward desired outcomes.
Setting, Inspecting & Adapting Goals - how organizations seek and progress toward their goals in a complex world using empiricism.
These simulated PAL-EBM exams may be used in several ways. If you take it as a final, you will get a very good idea how you would do if you walked right in to take the PAL-EBM exam. In that way, it can be a very good readiness indicator. Use this PAL I exam again and again to practice before you go for the real PAL exam.
Note :
1. This course contains Questions and Answers which will help you prepare for the Scrum .org exam. This course is not a replacement for the Scrum Guide, the scrum learning paths or the scrum. org assessments. One has to read the Scrum Guide and go through the learnings paths found on scrum. org (multiple times) to understand the concepts well. This is not optional.
2. The Questions and Answers in this practice exam are not a replica nor a replacement of the Open Assessments found at https://www.scrum .org/.
3. Based on the guidelines provided by Scrum .org, none of the questions are copied from the Open Assessments found at https://www.scrum .org/. If similar questions exist, then it's merely a coincidence. The underlying concepts however are similar if not the same.
4. The Questions which appear on the exam along with the answers will be different from what you find in this practice exam.
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