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(Agile Business Analyst) Foundation Certification E-learning

AgileBA® (Agile Business Analyst) Foundation Certification E-learning

Develop in-demand skills and earn the certification needed to become a proficient business analyst in an agile project team.

Become a certified APMG Agile Business Analyst

Business analysts help to identify challenges and define objectives teams use to reach goals. If you are a business analyst, the ILX AgileBA® Foundation e-learning will teach you how to adapt your methods in an ever-changing industry.

Part of what ILX’s Agile Business Analyst certification will teach you include:

The fundamental philosophy, principles, and process of agile business analysis
How to create and evaluate the content of business analyst-produced products in an agile environment
Popular agile techniques in a project
Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders within an agile project
How to apply the agile approach to agile project management and business analysis

As with all APMG-related training courses on ILX, the Agile Business Analyst certification is fully accredited by APMG and specifically helps you prepare for the AgileBA Foundation examination.

About the course

Update your skills and discover how to conduct agile business analysis with this AgileBA training course.

Accredited by APMG, the Agile Business Analysis course is perfect for any business analyst working with agile approaches.

This course is based on the AgileBA Handbook, published by Agile Business Consortium Limited, and offers similar benefits as programmes developed using the agile extension to BABKOK Guide.

You should take this course because:

Agile business analysis is a vital skill in today’s increasingly agile-driven business environments.
Agile business analysis helps you to analyse and improve any agile projects successfully
You’ll gain an agile mindset that is invaluable to achieving business goals
It’ll teach you the best agile techniques needed in project situations, including timeboxing, iterative development, and MoSCoW prioritisation

The AgileBA course focuses on skills for the three stages of an agile project: product, release, and iteration.

Aside from the theory taught, participants will also be part of agile business analysis practical workshops where they’ll learn lean analysis skills and discover the right amount of analysis required to create a successful project.

This course is for you whether you are a practising business analyst, an agile team member looking to gain an agile business analyst certification, or an individual pursuing the AgileBA Practitioner certificate.

Why get the Agile Business Analysis certification?

If you have a business analyst role and your organisation uses the agile methodology, the AgileBA certification and training will help you gain the in-demand skills needed to carry out effective analysis and assess the needs of any agile project.

Why use ILX as my training provider?

ILX is an accredited training and consulting organisation with a track record of providing best practice training courses, materials, and resources.

Duration

This course will take approximately 12-14 hours to complete.

Pre-requisites

There are no entry requirements for the Agile Business Analyst certification.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course, you should understand the fundamental principles and terminology within the Business Analysis guidance.

Specifically, you’ll learn:

The fundamental philosophy and principles of agile
The steps of a typical agile project
The products created during an agile project and their uses
How to plan and manage an iteration
How to analyse business goals and their decomposition
The parties involved within an agile project
How to write product backlog items to build a product backlog
How to apply user story techniques
The use of modelling and agile analysis
How to know whether an agile technique will work in a given situation

12 months online access to our accredited AgileBA Foundation course
Full tutor support
AgileBA exam simulator
AgileBA Foundation exam (valid for 12 months from the purchase date).

Optional extras:

The official AgileBA handbook created by the Agile Business Consortium.

What's covered?

This course will cover the following modules:

Introduction & overview
The role of agile business analysts in an agile world
Fundamentals of agile
Stakeholders in an agile project
Requirements, user stories, and prioritisation
Workshops
Modelling techniques and prototyping
Timeboxing and iterative development
Requirements estimating

Target audience

The AgileBA training is aimed at:

Practising business analyst
Team members looking to become agile business analysts
Product owners, managers, and project managers looking to understand business analysis
Anyone looking to gain the AgileBA Practitioner certificate

The AgileBA Foundation exam is taken online via a remote proctor.

Please click here to get more information about the technical requirements for taking your exam.

What are the levels of AgileBA certification?

There are two levels — AgileBA Foundation and AgileBA Practitioner. You must have the Foundation level certificate before you take the Practitioner exam.
Our course focuses on the Foundation level and is suitable for anyone involved in analysing the needs of agile projects.