Globally recognized PAL-I certification exam proves your understanding of how an agile approach contributes to business success and how you can contribute to agile transformation success.
The certification has lifetime validity.
The best way to learn about agile principles and the role of management in agile transformation is to attend a Professional Agile Leadership™ Essentials course.
The course focuses on understanding principles and practical tips for leading and developing agile teams. It lays a solid foundation for your agile knowledge.
The price of the course includes one attempt at the certification assessment. If you attempt it within 14 days after the course and fail to pass, you will get automatically another attempt for free.
You do not need to have your video camera turned on, no one will check you during the exam. Scrum.org trusts its students.
Start the exam whenever you feel ready. Once you start it, you have a limit of 60min. The remaining time will be displayed on the screen.
You choose one or more options. For most questions, it is stated how many options are correct. (E.g. "choose two best answers".)
You will see the result immediately after submitting the test. At the same time, you will receive feedback on which areas you did well and where you still have gaps.
The questions focus primarily on:
You don't need to know Scrum in detail, but it's good to understand its basics, especially the roles and their responsibilities.
Questions may try to catch you on stereotyped experiences, e.g. "long-term stable teams increase utilization", or excessive idealization of the agile approach, e.g. "self-managing team has complete freedom in how they work".
If you attempt the exam within 14 days after the course and fail to pass, you will get automatically another attempt free of charge. You can then take the exam again anytime you feel ready. Otherwise, you can buy another attempt directly from Scrum.org.
To prepare for the certification assessment, we recommend studying from these resources:
Go through the official training materials and your notes. We will share with you photos of everything we create during the training. Refresh and strenghten your knowledge.
Read the official Scrum Guide. You don't need to know Scrum in detail, the PAL-I exam doesn't focus on Scrum, but you need to have a basic picture. Especially about the roles, their responsibilities and the main principles of Scrum.
Read the official Evidence-Based Management Guide↗. Expect questions related to goals and metrics.
A good idea of what to expect is provided by the official sample assessment Agile Leadership Open↗. It is free, takes 30 minutes and contains 15 randomly selected questions from a larger pool, some of which may appear in the real assessment.
The sample assessment is generally easier than the actual certification exam. If you have trouble getting 100% in less than 10 minutes, you are not yet ready for the certification exam.
Go through the resources in the official Agile Leader Learning Path↗ on Scrum.org. Focus on the areas you struggled with in the sample test. Continue studying the resources even after passing the assessment. The knowledge you gain will be most useful in your practice.
The authors of the book The Professional Agile Leader Ron Eringa, Kurt Bittner and Laurens Bonnema were significantly involved in creating the Professional Agile Leadership™ Essentials course. If you attend the course with us, you can get the book as a gift.
Avoid preparation courses led by unlicensed trainers. They usually focus only on drilling test questions and do not explain Scrum and its application in practice. At the same time, you cannot be sure about the quality of the trainer and their knowledge.
Avoid sample test questions if they do not come directly from Scrum.org or licensed Professional Scrum Trainers. Similarly to unauthorized preparation courses, you cannot be sure whether the questions correctly represent the certification exam questions and correct answers.
If you need any help, do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help you.
Naší misí je vytvářet podmínky pro smysluplnou práci na smysluplných produktech. Agilita je prostředek. Pomáhá zlepšovat zákaznickou hodnotu a schopnost produktových organizací ji vytvářet.
Věříme, že neustálý kontakt produktových týmů se zákazníky, kultura experimentování a vysoká transparentnost jsou nejdůležitějšími ingrediencemi pro budování úspěšných produktů.
Agilní produktový management a Product Ownership
Technická excelence vývojových týmů
Agilní organizační design kolem zákaznických produktů
Jsme jediný poskytovatel certifikačních kurzů Scrum.org, ProKanban.org a LeSS v češtině na českém trhu. Umíme i anglicky
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