Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®)
Capability Development
Agile Business Analysis Certification (AgileBA®)
Our Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®) courses are accredited by the APMG and created in conjunction with Agile Business Consortium (ABC). They are designed to give a BA the skills needed to successfully gather, analyse, validate and champion the requirements throughout an Agile project. The courses will describe the most popular Agile approaches and will use the ABC Agile Project Framework to take the Agile BA through the phases of an Agile project.
Agile BA’s are an integral part of the Agile team throughout the life of a project. They facilitate collaboration within the project team and across the business. In addition to their traditional skills of modelling and specification, the Agile BA requires new skills in collaboration, facilitation, leadership and coaching. They must adapt to new ways of eliciting, specifying and managing requirements.
The AgileBA guidance and supporting Foundation and Practitioner courses explain how to lay the foundations for success within an agile environment. AgileBA® certification is aimed at aspiring and practicing BA’s and Change Specialists, and at team members wishing to adopt a fast-paced, flexible and collaborative approach whilst maintaining required standards and rigour.
As the use of agile approaches increases, business analysts struggle to determine how their role maps to the new approach and how it has changed from their familiar development process. Business analysts, for example, often find themselves proclaiming “in everything I read/hear about agile, I never see “business analyst” mentioned!” Even though the role of business analyst is rarely mentioned in descriptions of agile it does not mean that business analysis does not occur. In fact, agile’s focus on delivering value to customers requires the entire team to collaboratively perform business analysis on a frequent basis. This and other characteristics of agile change how a business analyst works on a project.