Scrum.org PAL - Evidence Based Management Question Bank

Leaders who sit PAL-EBM are tested on one habit above all others. The assessment checks whether you can steer an organisation with evidence instead of opinion: choose goals, measure four kinds of value, run small experiments and decide what to do next. You get 40 questions in 60 minutes, need 85% to pass and pay USD 200 per attempt, so the real preparation is learning to think in measures and hypotheses.

The credential is Scrum.org's Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management assessment, and its focus is narrower than its name suggests. Where other Scrum.org assessments ask what a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Developer should do, this one asks what a leader, sponsor or senior product person should do when they want to know whether their organisation is actually getting better. Everything in it traces back to a single short document, the Evidence-Based Management Guide, which makes it one of the more learnable assessments in the Scrum.org range if you read with intent.

This guide walks through what the assessment tests, what the numbers mean for your preparation, how the four key value areas fit together, how an evidence cycle works with a worked example, and a two-week plan for someone with a full-time job. Scrum.org's assessment listing was checked in October 2026, and the assessment is still offered with the fee and format described here.