Develop the skills needed to become a proficient Agile business analyst.
Adopt and apply leading guidance from the Agile Business Consortium.
Introducing an Agile approach has a significant impact on the role of the Business Analyst, on their existing skills and their way of working.
AgileBA training and certification is based on the AgileBA Handbook, published by the Agile Business Consortium.
The Handbook offers useful, practical and comprehensive guidance on the role of the Business Analyst working in an Agile way.
Accredited training and certification will help individuals to:
- Apply the underpinning philosophy, principles and processes of AgileBA in a project situation
- Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing and prioritising requirements
- Produce and evaluate the content of BA-produced products during an Agile project
- Identify and apply popular Agile techniques in a project situation, including MoSCoW prioritisation, iterative development and timeboxing
- Understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and the different levels of empowerment with respect to requirements and the business case
- Understand the mechanisms for facilitation and support within an Agile project
- Understand how to test, estimate and evaluate benefits delivery in an Agile project
- Describe and apply the Agile approach to managing requirements.
Additional recognition with Agile Business Consortium
Successful AgileBA candidates can claim Business Agility Professional Level 1 – Explorer status and a digital badge from the Agile Business Consortium for added recognition of your Agile credentials. If you're a successful AgileBA candidate, click here to claim your additional recognition and digital badge.
Further details of Business Agility Professional recognition can be found at the Consortium’s website.
AgileBA® Foundation
Help lay the foundations for successful agile projects.
- Practising business analysts
- Agile team members who wish to become Agile Business Analysts
- Individuals wishing to understand business analysis – such as product owners and managers
- Individuals pursuing the AgileBA Practitioner certificate.
- The underpinning philosophy and principles of Agile
- The processes within an Agile project
- The practices used in an Agile project plus their benefits and limitations
- The roles and responsibilities within an Agile project.
- Multiple choice
- 50 questions per paper
- 25 marks required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- 40 minute duration
- Closed-book.
AgileBA® Practitioner
Learn to apply and tailor the AgileBA approach to a given scenario.
- AgileBA Foundation certificate
- Practicing and aspiring Business Analysts
- AgileBA Foundation certified individuals
- Business Analysts looking to cement their position as expert Agile Business Analysts.
- How to apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of the DSDM Agile Project Framework
- How to apply a variety of Agile practices in a project, e.g. Facilitated Workshops, MoSCoW Prioritisation, Iterative Development and Modelling
- How to test, estimate and evaluate benefits delivery in an Agile project
- The mechanisms for facilitation and support within an Agile project
- The Agile approach to managing and prioritising requirements.
- Complex multiple choice
- 4 questions per paper with 20 marks available per questions
- 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) - 50%
- 2.5 hour duration
- Open-book (AgileBA Handbook only)
AgileBA® Practitioner Re-Registration
Maintain your Registered Practitioner status.
- A valid Practitioner certificate (must be before the certification expires).
- AgileBA Registered Practitioners wishing to retain their 'Registered' status
- Complex multiple choice
- 4 questions per paper with 20 marks available per question
- 40 marks required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2.5-hour duration
- Open-book (AgileBA Handbook only)