About AgileBA Certification
Overview
AgileBA Training and Certifications
Benefits of AgileBA Certification
For Individuals
- Gain a deeper understanding of business analysis principles and their application to achieve maximum value.
- Enhance facilitation skills by understanding stakeholder needs and aligning those to business requirements.
- Open doors to career advancement opportunities by gaining the expertise needed to drive project success through insightful analysis and recommendations.
- Learn a structured approach on how to bridge the gap between business needs and Agile delivery methods.
- Practice with real-world scenarios to apply Agile business analysis techniques confidently and effectively.
For Organizations
- Broadens team expertise with comprehensive insights into Agile frameworks that heighten analytical skills and adaptability in evolving project environments.
- Enhances collaboration, innovation, and efficiency by ensuring projects meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.
- Helps organizations handle complex challenges while keeping projects on track to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Clarifies the Business Analyst role beyond the individual project, in relation to organizational mission and strategy by providing direct guidance for the Business Analyst role.
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Testimonials
I learned a lot and will be applying my new knowledge, not just on new client projects, but in my own company.
I like that the theory behind the course is structured and well organized. In the future I hope that this would give me a broader perspective on the needs of the customer, how to handle their requests and all that for everybody's benefit.
The Handbook is excellent. It gives both model frameworks and practical guidance. It certainly helps to develop an agile approach to business analysis, very useful in the fast-changing environment of the corporate world.
I really enjoyed the practical exercise component as it allowed me to immediately try the new skills that I had just learnt, and to practise these in an environment that was supportive. I have already applied many of my recently learnt skills in my role as a junior analyst on our project.
The training and certification experience gave me a much greater understanding of an Agile BA's domain and I believe that was a large factor in facilitating my move into a permanent Business Analyst role.
Personally, I applied the theory and methodology into my job immediately, which was very rewarding.
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FAQs
APMG International has partnered with the Agile Business Consortium to develop AgileBA – this incorporates new guidance and a supporting training and certification scheme for business analysts. The AgileBA guidance is aimed at:
- Business Analysts
- Change Analysts
- Project Managers with business analysis responsibilities
- Scrum Product Owners
- Systems Analysts requiring a business and agile perspective for project work
- Agile Developers with analysis responsibilities.
It may also be useful to:
- Business Sponsors
- Programme Office and Project Office managers
- Service management and Service design professionals.
AgileBA has one main publication supporting the qualification scheme, published by Agile Business Consortium, called AgileBA® Agile Business Analysis Handbook.
This can be purchased from APMG Business Books.
Most AgileBA accredited training organizations include the guidance as part of the course fee.
Foundation examinations are currently available in English and Polish.
Practitioner examinations are currently only available in English. Further translations will be considered subject to market demand.
The AgileBA Foundation guidance is available in English and Polish.
The AgileBA Practitioner is currently only available in English.
For individuals self-studying it is almost impossible to say. As all candidates have different experiences and amount of time available for study, it varies from person to person. We suggest you buy the guidance and have a look through for yourself before deciding how long you need to spend learning.
For those studying with an accredited training organization, courses are generally delivered over 4 days (3 days for foundation). It is well worth investigating with individual providers, as many will offer tailored and blended learning solutions.
The AgileBA foundation examination consists of 50 multiple-choice questions, with 25 marks (50%) required to pass. It is a closed-book examination to be completed in 40 minutes.
The AgileBA practitioner and re-registration examinations are complex multiple-choice papers, made up of 4 questions each worth 20 marks giving a total of 80 marks. The required pass mark is 40 marks (50%). The exam is 2.5 hours in duration and is open book (AgileBA Handbook only).
AgileBA Registered Practitioner certification is valid for 5 years. Between 3 to 5 years after initial certification, Registered Practitioners are required to sit a re-registration examination to verify their continuing competence and knowledge in AgileBA in order to maintain their registered status. Beyond the 5-year validity the candidate’s certification will still be valid, however they will lose their ‘Registered’ status. Beyond the 5-year period, individuals will be required to complete the full Practitioner exam again in order to reinstate Registered status.
The pass marks for the AgileBA examinations are:
Foundation: You will need to score 25/50 to pass the foundation examination.
Practitioner and Re-registration: You will need to score 40/80 to pass the examination.
The foundation examination is not valid for a defined period and will not expire.
Candidates who pass the practitioner exam are recognized as ‘AgileBA Registered Practitioners'. Individuals will remain 'Registered' for a period of 5 years. To maintain Registered status, practitioners must complete and pass an AgileBA re-registration examination within 3-5 years following their initial/previous practitioner certification.
- Provisional results: After completing the Foundation examination, candidates may receive provisional results either orally from the invigilator or on-screen at the end of an online exam.
- Official results: Once processed, official results, including a PDF breakdown of marks by syllabus area, are available in the APMG Candidate Portal. Results are issued as the total number of marks achieved.
- Processing time: Exam papers are usually marked immediately after the exam. APMG formally processes and confirms results via the Candidate Portal within 2 working days of receiving completed papers.
- Outstanding payments: In exceptional cases, results may be withheld until full payment has been received.