Foundation & Practitioner – version 3
Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®)
Version 3 is here. Organizations are delivering change faster than ever, but plenty of that change still lands without moving anything that matters. AgileBA gives you the skills to identify the right opportunities, make decisions you can evidence, and show the value your work actually created.
About the course
AgileBA® gives you the skills, tools and techniques to do business analysis well when requirements move, timelines compress and certainty arrives late. It covers the whole arc: framing the problem, shaping and prioritizing requirements, guiding delivery, then validating that the outcome was worth having.
Version 3 shifts the emphasis from producing outputs to proving value. It brings product thinking and strategic alignment into the core of the role, so you can trace a line from organizational strategy through customer need to the thing your team is building this week. It also addresses working alongside AI honestly: what to delegate to it, what stays with human judgement, and how to keep accountability and evidence intact when analysis gets faster.
AgileBA works alongside other agile and project qualifications. Many practitioners hold AgileBA and AgilePM together, which gives them the full picture of how agile projects run and where business analysis carries the weight.
What’s new in version 3?
- Value over volume. The framing question throughout is whether you are creating the right value for the right people, not whether the backlog is moving.
- Product thinking built in. Techniques for continuous discovery, not just up-front analysis.
- Strategy to delivery. Explicit methods for connecting organizational intent to the work in front of you.
- AI-enabled analysis. How to use AI tools without surrendering judgement, accountability or the evidence trail.
What you will learn
Value, outcomes and strategic alignment
Trace a clear line from organizational strategy to the work sitting in front of your team, then evidence the outcome it produced. Version 3 puts value realization at the centre of the role rather than at the end of it.
Framing and prioritizing the work
Validate the problem before anyone commits to a solution, then elicit, model and manage requirements across the full lifecycle using MoSCoW prioritization and incremental delivery.
Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
Build the collaboration and leadership skills that make agile business analysis work in real organizations, where the right conversation matters as much as the right technique.
Modern analysis techniques, including AI
Apply user research, process modelling and value mapping in fast-moving environments, and use AI to speed up your analysis without giving up human judgement or the evidence behind your decisions.
Who is it for?
Whether you are new to agile or already working in adaptive environments, AgileBA® gives you a structured way to do business analysis better.
- Business Analysts
- Product Owners and Product Managers
- Change and transformation professionals
- Project and Programme Managers with analysis responsibilities
- Service designers and business architects
- Agile team members and consultants
- Anyone shaping, prioritizing or evaluating organizational change
Certification & Exams
Foundation Exam
40 minutes
50 multiple choice questions
50% pass mark (25 / 50)
Closed book
Practitioner Exam
2 hours
Complex multiple choice (4 questions / 15 marks each)
50% pass mark (30/60)
Open book (AgileBA® Reference Book only)
Start your AgileBA® journey
Train with an accredited provider. Browse our global network of accredited training organizations and pick a course that fits your schedule, location and budget. Classroom, virtual and self-paced e-learning are all available.
Or study on your own. Buy the AgileBA v3 Reference Book, work through it at your pace, then book your exam directly with APMG.
Sit your exam and apply it. Pass and you will hold your AgileBA® certification, ready to put to work straight away.
Authority in Agile
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