Becoming Agile Business Analyst - AAC IIBA Certification

Adopt an agile mindset by embracing inspect-and-adapt, constant stakeholder and team feedback, and deliver value rapidly and consistently while maintaining quality and reducing waste.

Explore the business analysis core concept model, detailing six dimensions: needs, change, solution, stakeholders, value, and context—and connect them to agile principles for delivering real, value-driven change.

Master pro tips on planning techniques in minutes, combining predictive analytics and adaptive planning, with emphasis on short-term blocks and aligning short-term actions with long-term goals.

Test your knowledge of the delivery horizon in agile analysis, exploring how teams prioritize backlog items, collaborate with the product owner, and deliver discrete, valuable software using iterative techniques.

Differentiate between output and outcome to align with user requirements and business requirements, document the business requirements and the user map of a product, and drive valuable outcomes.

Explore portfolio kanban as a visual system that tracks work from to do to done, uses work in progress limits to prevent bottlenecks, and helps identify flow constraints across divisions.

Practice retrospectives in Scrum to identify what went well and what can improve within sprints, guided by a neutral facilitator and open feedback that builds trust.

Explore process analysis by examining two dimensions: internal team techniques like value stream mapping and external team approaches such as impact mapping.

Impact mapping aligns initiatives with organizational goals by linking goal, actors, impact, and deliverables in a visual four-element framework.

Learn how behavior driven development uses a customer readable domain specific language written in gherkin format (given, when, then) to verify behavior, automate tests, and generate documentation with three amigos.

Master creating and refining user stories using the three cs: cards, conversation, and confirmation, with invest criteria to plan, prioritize, and validate backlog work in sprints.

Learn relative estimation using benchmarks to forecast story, epic, and theme delivery, applying planning poker or sizing methods while considering knowledge, experience, complexity, size, and uncertainty.

Elaborate the story by detailing its description, title, acceptance criteria, and subtasks in backlog refinement or planning, with defined done and attached documentation to keep scope clear.

Story mapping visualizes a set of stories on a two-axis grid, mapping flow horizontally and priority vertically, to clarify epics and data flow while avoiding detail overload.

Understand the customer by examining user profiles based on age, income, and demographics; use storyboarding and value modeling to explore value delivered to the end user across horizons in agile.