Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®)
Capability Development
Agile Business Analysis Certification (AgileBA®)
Our Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®) certifications are accredited by APMG International 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 certifications cover the most popular Agile approaches and use the ABC Agile Project Framework to take the AgileBA 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 certifications explain how to lay the foundations for success within an agile environment. AgileBA certifications are aimed at aspiring and practicing BA’s and Change Specialists, and team members wishing to adopt a fast-paced, flexible and collaborative approach whilst maintaining required standards and rigour.
Agile Business Analysis, as defined by the Agile Business Consortium (ABC), is an approach that integrates business analysis with agile principles. It emphasises flexibility, collaboration, and continuous value delivery in an iterative environment. Unlike traditional business analysis, which focuses on upfront planning and detailed specifications, Agile Business Analysis prioritises adaptive planning, responding to change, and ensuring that solutions meet evolving business needs.
At the core of Agile Business Analysis is continuous collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring that requirements are understood and refined throughout the project lifecycle. This ongoing engagement helps align the solution with business goals, even as those goals or priorities shift. ABA also promotes incremental delivery, breaking down work into smaller, manageable pieces to provide regular, measurable value to the organisation.
Key to this approach is the focus on outcomes over deliverables. Agile Business Analysis strives to achieve real business value, rather than simply completing tasks. It encourages adaptability, where analysis is done throughout the project to adjust requirements and solutions based on feedback. Furthermore, Agile Business Analysis fosters continuous improvement through reflection and learning, ensuring that processes are refined and solutions are aligned with the business needs over time.
In summary, Agile Business Analysis combines agile flexibility with effective business analysis to drive valuable outcomes in dynamic environments.
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.
