1. Improve efficiencies, skills and your
organization’s success with professional
certification

2. Who are we?
Formed in 1957 – Royal Charter granted
in 1984
A professional body with over 75,000
members worldwide
An international brand that stands for
quality and progress
The only awarding body dedicated solely
to IT
We set and maintain the standards in IT
We work with global business, education
and government
Competence
Professionalism
Performance
Efficiency
Standards that create the outstanding
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3. An international reach
France
UK
Belgium
Finland
Spain
China
Japan
Hong Kong
United
States
Singapore
Greece
India
Egypt
Middle
East
Kenya
Pakistan
Mauritius
Australia
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4. Supporting professional development
• Membership
– For individuals & organizations
• SFIAplus – Skills & Competency
Framework
• Professional Certification
– Agile
– Business Analysis
– IT Service Management
– Project Management
– Information Security
– Software Testing
Over 700,000 professional certification
exams delivered in the last 10 years
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5. The IT profession
A Professional is a practitioner
who:
has specific skills rooted in a
broad base
has appropriate
certifications from a
recognized body
undergoes continuous
development
operates to a code of
conduct
Membership of a recognized professional body is
Membership of a recognized professional body is
an essential part of being a Professional
an essential part of being a Professional
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6. BCS professional certification
• Supports individuals’ skills
development resulting in
improved efficiencies and
performance for
organizations
• Today we will focus on two
areas we feel can make a
real difference to
individuals and
organizations
• Agile
• Business Analysis
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8. Why Agile?

9. BCS Agile Certification
Making Agile Work
• Supports a holistic approach to
embedding agile practices across an
organization
• Methodology agnostic providing the
broadest set of tools and capabilities
to manage change
• Something for everyone - from
developer to executive
• Work-based learning enabling
individuals to apply and analyse agile
solutions that work for their market
• Developed with our industry leading
partners Radtac & Emergn
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10. Foundation Certificate in Agile
• Who is it for?
– Organizational leaders, Managers,
Business users, Product owners,
Technical users, Agile enthusiasts
• The Syllabus
–The agile manifesto
This course provided a
This course provided a
fantastic overview of Agile. II
fantastic overview of Agile.
would highly recommend
would highly recommend
this course to individuals
this course to individuals
who are new to agile practice
who are new to agile practice
and want an understanding
and want an understanding
of the agile landscape.
of the agile landscape.
Laurel W., Project Manager, NHS
Laurel W., Project Manager, NHS
–Rationale and benefits of agile
–Individuals and their interactions over processes and tools
–Working systems over comprehensive documentation
–Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
–Responding to change over following a plan
–Common agile roles, technique, practices
–Relevant methods and approaches for agile teams
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11. The benefits
• Share a common language with IT
As a manager and someone
As a manager and someone
who has discovered Agile
who has discovered Agile
recently, the course is a
recently, the course is a
great introduction to Agile
great introduction to Agile
and its concepts. II definitely
and its concepts. definitely
recommend it.
recommend it.
enabling closer collaboration and
management of projects
João F., CEO, Portugal
João F., CEO, Portugal
For business professionals:
• More effective change management
through solid understanding of agile
principles and methodologies
• Understand the cultural aspect of
implementing agile effectively
For developers:
• Methodology agnostic so you can select
the right method for your organization
• Start your development pathway and
progress to Practitioner level
The BCS Foundation
The BCS Foundation
Certificate in Agile offers a
Certificate in Agile offers a
great introduction. In or out
great introduction. In or out
of IT, II would recommend
of IT, would recommend
this course to anyone
this course to anyone
looking to deliver results in
looking to deliver results in
an incremental, structured
an incremental, structured
and creative/collaborative
and creative/collaborative
fashion.
fashion.
Rory C., Business Owner
Rory C., Business Owner

12. Practitioner Certificate in Agile
Introducing VFQ
A comprehensive Agile and
Lean education program
focused on improving
outcomes
‘It is the position of the board
of the Agile Alliance that
employers should have
confidence only in
certifications that are skillbased and difficult to achieve.’
VFQ – selected by BCS to certify professional Agile practitioners

13. Work-based learning
VFQ is work-based learning that
helps people apply skills and
develop capabilities on the job Learning in the workplace
It works!
Learning from others
Classroom training
The 10 VFQ Modules behind the
BCS Agile Practitioner
Certificate
Why Change?; Delivering Early
and Often; Optimising Flow;
Teams; Motivation; Feedback;
Scrum; Kanban; Trade-Offs;
Adapting Agile

14. Why Agile is much more than Scrum
“
Rather than blindly
aligning to a particular
framework, brand, or
interpretation of Agile; we
are aligned with the
outcomes that matter for
Maersk Line.
Ozlem Yuce
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̈
Agile Transformation Lead
”
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15. A different approach at Maersk
•
•
•
Rather than introducing some new tools or
practices, we wanted to spend time
understanding why change was needed and
what had to change
There was no ‘solution delivery’ – we helped them
build, adopt and adapt the tools that they
decided would work for their particular, unique
context
Education was at the heart of our work, helping
them understand why it was important to prioritize,
optimize flow, deliver early and often and gather
feedback
8 KEY
IMPERATIVES
Get to initial prioritization
faster
Improve prioritization
using economics
Pull work from a dynamic
prioritized list
Reduce the size of
requirements
Get to the point of writing
code quickly
Actively manage the
work in progress
Enable a smooth
sustainable flow of work
Enable faster feedback
cycles
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16. Maersk and VFQ
Education underpinned the
changes that happened at
Maersk Line and helped to
bring them about.
The most common means of
delivering education – a short
training course – is insufficient
to make real and lasting
change.
They developed a hybrid
style of learning
a kick-off training
self-study and work-based
learning activities
fortnightly review sessions (like
a book club)
BCS certification study sessions
for Agile ‘champions’
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17. Maersk and their transformed
IT results
•
Massively increased ROI
•
Time until benefits are realized reduced by
half
•
Features delivered and released twice as
quickly
•
Total costs reduced by 3.6% despite number
of releases doubling and increased
productivity from suppliers
50%
5-10x
Reduction in
time to market
Throughput
increased by
80%
More enhancements delivered
•
Value delivered
increased by
•
Success on business critical projects
•
Higher motivation, increased learning and
improved relationships
22%
Reduction in
defects
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18. GISEC – June 2013
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19. The value Business Analysts
bring to business
• Why Business Analysis - video
• Helping to look ahead, anticipate and manage business change:
– Spotting opportunities
– Improving experience
– Maximizing efficiencies
• Aligning business objectives with the right strategy and tactics
– What an organization should:
- start doing: to grow the business
- stop doing: to stop waste
- do better: to increase efficiency
• Business Analysis = ensuring what’s delivered is what the organization
actually needs

20. The value certification brings to
BAs and business
• Formalizes and up-skills business analysis through learning
best practice tools and techniques
• Certification demonstrates credibility and professionalism
• Proof of a high standard of knowledge and capability
• Valuable for career progression and salary increases
• Builds credibility when pitching for business

21. What is BCS Business Analysis
Certification?
• Start now – whether you are
new to BA or an experienced
practitioner with our modular
certificates
– Foundation certificates for those
just starting out.
– Specialized certificates for more
experienced analysts.
– Diploma & Expert levels for
those leading the field.
• Career long development
Join 70,000 other
BAs worldwide
who have taken a
BCS BA certificate
• Theory plus practical application
• Experience based learning
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22. What our customers say?
“You can use the Business Analysis diploma to build an excellent
business analysis team. We’ve had a lot of success; we have
won Business Analyst of the Year Awards, both with BCS and the
IIBA, and I think the diploma has helped actually set a
benchmark and a standard through which people can excel to.”
George Hancock, Head of Corporate BA Allianz
“When I’m working on projects with a client, whether an internal
or external client, I have the confidence now to challenge them
on their opinions from the business analysis perspective. The
result of that means I have saved departments money, I’ve
made things more effective, I’ve improved things. “
Lynda Girvan – Senior Business Analyst, UK Government

23. Conclusion
• Improve efficiencies, skills & your organization’s success with
professional certification
– A Professional is a practitioner who has appropriate certifications from a
recognized body
– The right training and certification formalises and up-skills individuals and
demonstrates credibility and professionalism.
• Agile
– Education and certification were at the heart of Maersk’s agile transformation
resulting in real tangible benefits for the organization.
• Business Analysis
– BA skills are critical to improving organizational effectiveness and
performance
– Organizations such as Deloitte and Allianz have used certification to build
effective BA teams
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24. For more information
www.bcs.org/professionalcertifications
www.bcs.org/businessanalysis
www.bcs.org/agile
Or email: customerservice@hq.bcs.org.uk
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