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Agile Business Analyst (AgileBA) Practitioner Certification

The Agile Business Consortium’s Agile Business Analyst (AgileBA®) Practitioner course is the world’s first independent certification in Agile Business Analysis. While there are many agile courses available to Scrum Masters, and agile developers, this course and certification are specifically designed for Business Analysts and focus on Agile Business Analysis methods and principles. This course goes beyond the basic concepts of Agile and SCRUM and provides BAs with skills, techniques and an understanding of the role they can play in an agile environment.

Business Analysts are an absolutely integral park of an Agile project and development team. They play a key role in communication and collaboration throughout the project, program increment, or time-box. In addition to their traditional skills of modelling and specification, the Agile Business Analyst requires new skills in collaboration, teamwork, facilitation, leadership – and must adapt to new ways of eliciting, specifying, and managing requirements. Save

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This course will clarify many of the uncertainties of the role of the Business Analyst in an agile world and outline the different ways of working with an agile team during the phases and iterations of an agile project. The AgileBA certification course is based on the Agile Business Consortium project framework. Participants will take part in two exams, one on the third day and another the week after the class. On successful completion they will become certified in Agile Business Analysis. The APMG AgileBA® Practitioner certification equips you with an in-depth knowledge of not just Agile principles, but also how to apply them as a business analyst on a daily basis—with teams using Scrum, Kanban, Lean, DSDM and SAFe methods.

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Type

Instructor-Led Online

Target

Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, Program Managers, Portfolio Managers

Pre-requisite

None

Duration

3 days (2 days AgileBA Foundation + ½ day AgileBA Practitioner)

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Credits

18 PDUs/CDUs

Popularity

5 Stars

Rate

Regular: $1995 (plus $400 exam fees) Early Bird: $1295 (plus $295 exam fees)

Dates

TBD

Purpose

To learn in-depth, practical techniques to gather, analyze and document business requirements

The Holistic View of the Business

  • The Agile BA role in relation to mission and objectives
  • How to analyze the business environment
  • Measuring the success of implementing change

The Agile Landscape

  • What is agile? Approaches and frameworks
  • Why is agile needed?
  • Role and responsibilities of the Agile BA and the Agile team

Stakeholders

  • Stakeholder types / personas
  • RACI and RASCI in Agile
  • Empowerment of stakeholders in an agile project

Dealing with Requirements

  • The Agile approach to requirements
  • User Stories, Epics, Acceptance Criteria
  • The Agile Business Analyst’s link to quality and testing
  • The Agile Requirements Life Cycle
  • Checking completeness

The Agile Business Case

  • Strategic and project business cases
  • Understanding the business problem
  • As Is, To Be, Abstraction
  • Gap Analysis and Value Streams

Facilitated Workshops

  • The role of facilitation in Agile
  • How to organize and run a Facilitated Workshop

Prioritization

  • Combining and prioritizing requirements
  • Customer perception and expectation

Modelling and prototyping

  • 6 perspectives for modelling
  • Tacit information
  • Reasons and perspectives for prototyping

Working in a timebox

  • Timebox structure and iterative development
This course provides Business Analysts with the essential skills needed to elicit, analyze, validate and champion the requirements throughout an agile project. On completion of this accredited course, you will become a certified Agile Business Analyst. This course in Agile Business Analysis will enable attendees to:

  • Understand the difference between traditional and agile business analysis
  • Identify stakeholders, personas, and their involvement in agile projects
  • Understand what requirements mean in an agile world
  • Describe the competencies and techniques of an Agile BA
  • Understand the role of the BA role in the Agile team and their organization
  • Capture and manage effective agile requirements for incremental solution delivery
  • Recognize how an agile business case differs from a traditional business case and present a lean business canvas
  • Learn how modelling techniques fit into an Agile environment
  • Understand the importance of facilitated workshops
  • Understand the different ways of working as a BA in Agile
The following is included (with training and exam fees)

  • 2.5 very full days of classroom training (and an expectation of some evening work)
  • Both AgileBA® Foundation and AgileBA® Practitioner exams
  • Full set of PowerPoint slides
  • Case study and answer pointers
  • APMG Agile Business Analysis Handbook V2.0 (Manual)
  • One year free membership of the Agile Business Consortium
  • Certificate of course completion

Examinations

  • Attendees take the AgileBA Foundation exam on the third day, and the AgileBA Practitioner exam on the week following the class.
  • The AgileBA Foundation exam is a 40-minute multiple-choice paper.
  • The AgileBA Practitioner exam is a 2.5-hour complex multiple-choice paper.

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