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

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A presentation examining how professional certification through BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, can contribute to your business success - from demonstrating credibility and professionalism to proof of a high standard of knowledge. Improve your career prospects and earn salary increases faster by setting yourself apart from your peers, and improve your organisation’s efficiencies and skill set. Map your professional development progress with the free BCS PDP tool to keep an easy-to-track record of your CPD. http://bit.ly/1nFxNfr

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Improve efficiencies, skills and your organization’s success with professionalcertification

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Who are we?

Formed in 1957 – Royal Charter granted in 1984A professional body with over 75,000 members worldwideAn international brand that stands for quality and progressThe only awarding body dedicated solely to ITWe 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

UKFrance

Belgium Finland

Greece

Egypt

India

Singapore

Hong Kong

JapanChina

United States

Kenya Pakistan

Mauritius

Middle East Australia

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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 TestingOver 700,000 professional certification

exams delivered in the last 10 years

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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

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

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Why Agile?

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BCS Agile CertificationMaking 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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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

•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

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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

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

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Practitioner Certificate in AgileIntroducing 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

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Work-based learning

VFQ is work-based learning that helps people apply skills and develop capabilities on the job

It works!

Learning in the workplaceLearning from others

Classroom training

The 10 VFQ Modules behind the BCS Agile Practitioner CertificateWhy Change?; Delivering Early and Often; Optimising Flow; Teams; Motivation; Feedback; Scrum; Kanban; Trade-Offs; Adapting Agile

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Why Agile is much more than Scrum

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Ozlem YuceAgile 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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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

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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’

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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%

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GISEC – June 201318

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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www.bcs.org/professionalcertifications

www.bcs.org/businessanalysis

www.bcs.org/agile

www.pdp.org

www.bcs.org

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