PAL-EBM is a Scrum.org certification that validates your understanding of the EvidenceBased Management (EBM) framework — an empirical approach to continuously improving customer outcomes, organisational capabilities and business results. It tests your ability to identify goals and the measures that track progress toward them, form hypotheses about how to improve, run focused experiments to test those hypotheses, and use what you learn to steer the organisation forward. Where many Agile certifications focus on process, PAL-EBM focuses on proof — how leaders know whether their Agile investment is actually working.

EBM is Scrum.org's framework for measuring and improving organisational agility using real evidence rather than assumptions or activity metrics like velocity. Instead of asking “did we finish what we planned,” EBM asks “is this actually creating more value for customers and the business.” It gives leaders a structured way to set goals, choose meaningful measures, run small experiments, and adapt — the same empirical cycle Scrum uses at team level, applied at the organisational and strategic level.

PAL-EBM is designed for professionals in leadership roles — executives, managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile coaches and consultants — who are responsible for the success of a product delivery programme or Agile transformation and need a credible way to measure and demonstrate that success. It particularly suits leaders who want to move their organisation away from static, activity-based dashboards and toward evidence-driven decision-making.

• Current Value — the value the product or service is delivering for customers and the organisation right now.
• Unrealized Value — the potential value that could be captured by better meeting customer and market needs.
•  Time-to-Market — how quickly the organisation can deliver a new capability, service, or value proposition to customers.
• Ability to Innovate — the organisation's capacity to deliver new capabilities that increase Current Value or capture Unrealized Value.

PAL I certifies a broad understanding of Agile leadership — how leaders create the conditions for self-managing teams and organisational agility to thrive. PAL-EBM goes narrower and deeper into one specific, high-value leadership capability: measurement. It's for leaders who already grasp Agile leadership fundamentals and now need a rigorous, evidence-based way to set goals, track real progress, and prove the value of their Agile investment to stakeholders and the business. Many leaders pursue PAL I first and PAL-EBM as the natural next step.

No. Like all Scrum.org Professional Scrum certifications, PAL-EBM is yours for life once you pass the assessment — there's no renewal fee, no continuing-education requirement, and no expiry date.

The exam draws on focus areas from Scrum.org's Professional Scrum Competencies, plus additional EBM-specific topics. Tezzonix Academy's programme covers all of them:

• Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework — why and when empiricism is needed as the foundation for evidence-based leadership.

• Managing Products with Agility — evaluating product value, applying Unrealized Value to business strategy, and using Current Value and   Unrealized Value in stakeholder and customer management.

• Evolving the Agile Organization — applying lean and Agile principles to portfolio investment decisions, and the core concepts of the EBM   framework itself.

• Forming and Evaluating Hypotheses — running short, focused experiments to make measurable progress toward desired outcomes.

• Setting, Inspecting and Adapting Goals — how organisations pursue and progress toward goals in a complex, uncertain world using empiricism.

The programme combines structured theory across all five EBM focus areas with scenario-based exam preparation, delivered by trainers experienced in Agile leadership and organisational measurement. The goal isn't just passing the assessment — it's leaving with a framework you can put to work immediately: setting real goals and measures for your own team or organisation using the four Key Value Areas.

The PAL-EBM programme is delivered online with a flexible schedule, so you can join from anywhere. Tezzonix Academy trains professionals internationally, with hubs in Kerala, India and Bergamo, Italy.

Tezzonix Academy offers PAL-EBM training as a dedicated preparation track within its broader Agile Leadership programme, which also includes PAL I. Candidates can take PAL-EBM training on its own or combine it with PAL I preparation for a more complete grounding in Agile leadership before specialising in evidence-based measurement — reach out to the team to discuss the sequencing that fits your current experience.

The EBM Guide gives you the framework, but the exam tests how you'd apply it to messy, realistic organisational situations — where self-study alone often falls short. Tezzonix Academy's programme adds structured case studies, scenario practice at exam difficulty, and access to trainers who can explain why one answer reflects EBM thinking and another doesn't, which is the part candidates most often underestimate before sitting the real assessment.

PAL-EBM is most directly relevant to executives, transformation leaders, Heads of Agile/Delivery, and senior Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Agile coaches who are accountable for proving the business impact of an Agile transformation — not just running it. It's also valuable for consultants who need a credible, vendor-neutral framework for measuring organisational agility with clients.

Yes. PAL-EBM is issued and verified directly by Scrum.org, one of the most widely recognised Agile and Scrum certification bodies globally, and every certification includes a free digital credential you can display on LinkedIn and professional profiles. A PAL-EBM credential earned through Tezzonix Academy in India carries exactly the same international standing as one earned anywhere else.

Yes. Once you pass the official PAL-EBM assessment through Scrum.org, you'll hold the industry-recognised PAL-EBM certification and digital credential issued directly by Scrum.org. Alongside that, Tezzonix Academy issues a certificate of training completion, useful for showing your structured preparation to an employer or for internal records.

The Scrum.org PAL-EBM assessment carries its own fee, set and collected directly by Scrum.org (currently $200 USD per attempt), which is separate from what you pay Tezzonix Academy for training. Whether a given course package bundles the assessment fee or not can vary, so it's worth confirming exactly what's included when you enrol.