The BCS Professional Certificate in Agile Business Analysis assesses competence regarding the philosophy, methods, principles and techniques of the Agile approach and its relevance to business analysis. 1. Agile Philosophy1.1 The Business Analysis Service Framework1.2 Business agilityDefinition of business agilityFour dimensions of business agility1.3 The agile business analystEnabling business agilitySupporting agile software projectsAgile manifesto for business analysts1.4 Growth and fixed mindsetsDefinitions2. Agile Principles2.1 The three elements of agile deliveryMindsetPracticesMethods2.2 The Agile manifesto2.3 The six core Agile valuesCollaborative workingSelf-managing teams: Tuckman & Jenson theory of group developmentContinuous improvement and analysis: Kaizen8 Wastes of Lean (TIMWOODS)PDSAIterative development and incremental deliveryPlanning for and building in changeDoing the right thing and the thing right3. Agile Methods3.1 Key elements in agile methods3.2 Agile methodsScrum: three pillars of Scrum; the sprint; four key Scrum events; the Scrum team; three Scrum artefacts XP: five rules of XPDSDM/Agile PM: DSDM life cycle
