This document discusses professional certification from BCS, a professional body for IT professionals. It provides an overview of BCS, its international reach, and the certifications it offers in areas like Agile, business analysis, IT service management, and project management. The document focuses on the benefits of BCS certification in Agile and business analysis. For Agile, it describes the Foundation and Practitioner certificates and shares a case study of how certification helped transform Agile practices at Maersk. For business analysis, it outlines the various certification levels and shares testimonials on how certification has helped analysts and their organizations. The document encourages planning professional development with BCS's free online tool.

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

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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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An international reach
Spain
UK
France
Belgium
Finland
Greece
Egypt
India
Singapore
Hong Kong
Japan
China
United
States
Kenya Pakistan
Mauritius
Middle
East
Australia

4. Supporting professional development
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• Membership
– For individuals & organisations
• 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

5. 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 recognised professional body
is an essential part of being a Professional
Membership of a recognised professional body
is an essential part of being a Professional
The IT profession
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BCS professional certification
• Supports individuals’ skills
development resulting in
improved efficiencies and
performance for
organisations
• Today we will focus on two
areas we feel can make a
real difference to
individuals and
organisations
• Agile
• Business Analysis

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?
– Organisational leaders, Managers,
Business users, Product owners,
Technical users, Agile enthusiasts
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This course provided a
fantastic overview of Agile. I
would highly recommend
this course to individuals
who are new to agile practice
and want an understanding
of the agile landscape.
Laurel W., Project Manager, NHS
This course provided a
fantastic overview of Agile. I
would highly recommend
this course to individuals
who are new to agile practice
and want an understanding
of the agile landscape.
Laurel W., Project Manager, NHS
• The Syllabus
–The agile manifesto
–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

11. The benefits
For business professionals:
• More effective change management
through solid understanding of agile
principles and methodologies
• Share a common language with IT
enabling closer collaboration and
management of projects
• Understand the cultural aspect of
implementing agile effectively
For developers:
• Methodology agnostic so you can select
the right method for your organisation
• Start your development pathway and
progress to Practitioner level
As a manager and someone
who has discovered Agile
recently, the course is a
great introduction to Agile
and its concepts. I definitely
recommend it.
João F., CEO, Portugal
As a manager and someone
who has discovered Agile
recently, the course is a
great introduction to Agile
and its concepts. I definitely
recommend it.
João F., CEO, Portugal
The BCS Foundation
Certificate in Agile offers a
great introduction. In or out
of IT, I would recommend
this course to anyone
looking to deliver results in
an incremental, structured
and creative/collaborative
fashion.
Rory C., Business Owner
The BCS Foundation
Certificate in Agile offers a
great introduction. In or out
of IT, I would recommend
this course to anyone
looking to deliver results in
an incremental, structured
and creative/collaborative
fashion.
Rory C., Business Owner

12. Practitioner Certificate in Agile
Introducing VFQ
‘It is the position of the board
of the Agile Alliance that
employers should have
confidence only in
certifications that are skill-
based and difficult to achieve.’
A comprehensive Agile and
Lean education program
focused on improving
outcomes
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
It works!
Learning in the workplace
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
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Ozlem Yucë ̈
Agile Transformation Lead
Rather than blindly
aligning to a particular
framework, brand, or
interpretation of Agile; we
are aligned with the
outcomes that matter for
Maersk Line.
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15. A different approach at Maersk
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• 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 prioritised,
optimize flow, deliver early and often and gather
feedback
8 KEY
IMPERATIVES
Get to initial prioritisation
faster
Improve prioritisation
using economics
Pull work from a dynamic
prioritised 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

16. Maersk and VFQ
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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’

17. Maersk and their transformed
IT results
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• Massively increased ROI
• Time until benefits are realized reduced by
half
• Features delivered and released twice as
quickly
• More enhancements delivered
• Total costs reduced by 3.6% despite number
of releases doubling and increased
productivity from suppliers
• Success on business critical projects
• Higher motivation, increased learning and
improved relationships
Reduction in
time to market
50%Value delivered
increased by
5-10x
Throughput
increased by
22% Reduction in
defects
80%

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
– Maximising efficiencies
• Aligning business objectives with the right strategy and tactics
– What an organisation 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 organisation
actually needs

20. The value certification brings to
BAs and business
• Formalises 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?
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• 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
• Theory plus practical application
• Experience based learning
Join 70,000 other
BAs worldwide
who have taken a
BCS BA certificate

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. Get planning.
• Whichever road you decide to take, map out your progress with our free
BCS PDP tool
• With it you can:
- Hold a central record of your CPD
- Keep it with you wherever you work
- Get access to potential activities, content or resources
• It’s quick to use and available on any compatible device thanks to it’s
secure cloud based solution
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Use your FREE BCS PDP tool now by visiting pdp.bcs.org.

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