APMG Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®) Foundation & Practitioner Version 3

AgileBA® is a globally recognized certification for Agile Business Analysis. It connects strategy, value and delivery, equipping professionals to collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, challenge assumptions and facilitate evidence-based decisions that produce meaningful outcomes.

AgileBA combines Business Analysis, Business Agility, Product Thinking, Value Delivery, Strategic Alignment, Human-Centred Decision Making, and AI-Enabled Ways of Working.

Prerequisites

Participants should have some basic understanding of Agile principles.

Target audience

This course is designed for:

• Practicing 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 certificate

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

Foundation Course:

• Understand the context
• Frame the value
• Involve the right people and views
• Map the customer journey
• Slice the work
• Test the work
• Use AI responsibly
• Learn from evidence.

Practitioner Course:

• Understand the AgileBA lenses
• Apply them to delivery work
• Use them to diagnose complexity
• Sse evidence to decide what to scale, adapt, pause or stop

AgileBA v3 Foundation

• AgileBA Fundamentals
• Value Horizons
• Domains of Interest
• Agile Facilitation and Workshops
• User Story Mapping
• Intent · Scope · Approach (ISA)
• Iterative Requirements
• Checking User Story Quality
• Collaborative Testing
• AI and Agile Business Analysis
• Continuous Improvement

AgileBA v3 Practitioner

• ISA Diagnosis
• Adaptive Strategy and Perspective Analysis
• Complexity, and Sense Making
• Strategy Alignment and Value Flow
• User Research
• Decomposition and Value Stream Analysis
• Collaborative Quality Engineering and Verification
• Empirical Validation and Continuous Value Realization

Exams and assessments

There are two exams that form part of this qualification, details are as follows:

The Foundation examination paper consists of:

2.1. A Question Booklet that contains 50 exam questions. Each question covers a different syllabus topic and is worth 1 mark. The pass mark is 25 (50%).

2.2. An Answer Booklet on which your answers must be given. There will only ever be one correct answer to each question. If more than one answer is given in the Answer Booklet the response line will be void and will attract no marks. Marks are not subtracted for incorrect answers.

The Practitioner examination paper consists of three booklets:

2.1. The Scenario Booklet contains a Project Scenario providing a description of the organization, the business rationale for the project and the project objectives. The Scenario Booklet may also include additional information for one or more of the four questions. Where additional information is to be used, this is clearly stated in bold within the question. Additional information is only to be used for the question to which it relates. If there is no reference to additional information or the Project Scenario within a question, then you should answer the question using only the information contained within the question. In this case the Project Scenario provides the background and context to the overall project but not the facts required to answer the question.

2.2. The Question Booklet contains four questions, each covering a different syllabus area or combination of syllabus areas. The syllabus areas covered are identified at the beginning of each question. Each of the four questions contains 15 question lines, each of which attracts 1 mark, giving a total of 60 marks. The pass mark is 30 (50%). Each of the four questions will be sub-divided into parts. Each of the ‘part-questions’ will identify the portion of the 15 marks allocated to it. You are expected to answer all questions and part-questions.

2.3. The Answer Booklet on which the answers must be given. There will only ever be one answer to each question unless it is clearly stated otherwise within the question. If more than one answer is given in the Answer Booklet, but not required by the question, the response line will be void.

Hands-on learning

• Apply concepts through practical exercises
• Apply AgileBA Techniques in scenarios