BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile Practice Exam
BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile
About BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile
BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile (Version 2.0) is concerned with the use of Agile practices in projects, product and software advancement and the syllabus is composed to ensure the candidate has a suitable understanding of the core concepts of the Agile values, Agile practices, and principles, across a breadth of Agile methodologies; it does not solely focus on one particular methodology.
Who is it for?
- Business and IT professionals who are interested in agile practices.
- Anyone requiring knowledge of agile as well as organizational leaders and managers wanting to understand the value of agile practices or those who work in an agile environment, including developers, software testers, business analysts, product owners, and scrum masters.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for this certification. Training with a BCS accredited training provider is recommended.
Course Structure
The important topics that BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile (Version 2.0) covers are:
Domain 1 - Learn and understand about Why Agile (7.5%, 3 Questions)
1.1 Describe a linear development approach, such as Waterfall and V-model
1.2 Explain why linear development approaches are not suitable in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) environment
1.3 Explain the origins of Agile
1.4 Recognise the Agile Manifesto and its principles
1.5 Explain how the Pillars of Scrum underpin Agile thinking
Domain 2 - Learn about individuals and their Interactions over Processes and Tools (7.5%, 3 Questions)
2.1 Describe ways that the processes and tools can undermine Agile team performance
2.2 Explain the connection between team motivation and self-organising autonomous teams
2.3 Recall how Agile teams interact
Domain 3 - Understand Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation (7.5%, 3 Questions)
3.1 Describe how working software means more than just code
3.2 Explain that Agile can be applied to non-software products
3.3 Explain how the Seven Wastes of Lean (Software Development) relates to comprehensive documentation
Domain 4 - Understand Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation (7.5%, 3 Questions)
4.1 Describe the Agile team’s relationship with its customers
4.2 Describe how Agile teams use timeboxes and iterations to decide what work to commit to
4.3 Describe the Product Owner role and their responsibilities
Domain 5 - Learn to respond to Change over following a plan (10%, 4 Questions)
5.1 Explain how regular feedback helps Agile teams respond to change
5.2 Describe how Agile teams recognise when change is underway
5.3 Describe the different levels of planning that Agile teams use
5.4 Explain the risks of detailed upfront planning
Domain 6 - Learn about the Agile Mindset (25%, 10 Questions)
6.1 Explain Servant Leadership
6.2 Explain how Agile teams are cross-functional and self-organising
6.3 Explain how the Pillars of Scrum enable continuous improvement
6.4 Describe how Agile teams demonstrate transparency
6.5 Explain the importance of maximising the amount of work not done
6.6 Describe how Agile teams maintain a sustainable pace
6.7 Recall that autonomy, mastery and purpose are critical factors in creating motivated teams
6.8 Explain the importance of Psychological Safety for high performing teams
6.9 Explain incremental and iterative delivery
Domain 7 - Understand roles in Agile Teams (5%, 2 Questions)
7.1 Describe the three Scrum roles
7.2 Identify and describe commonly used non-Scrum Agile roles
Domain 8 - Understand common Agile Practices (20%, 8 Questions)
8.1 Team Leadership and Organisation
- Explain Iterations and Timeboxing
- Explain Daily stand-up meetings
- Explain Agile board
- Explain Iteration planning
- Explain Iteration review
- Explain Retrospective
- Explain Agile coaching
- Explain Backlog refinement
- Explain Limiting work in progress (WIP)
8.2 Requirements
- Explain Product roadmaps
- Explain Backlog
- Explain User stories
- Explain Three C’s (Card, Conversation, Confirmation)
- Explain Definitions of Done and Ready
8.3 Estimation
- Explain Relative sizing
- Explain the Agile Estimation Game, e.g. Planning PokerTM (1)
- Explain Story points
- Explain Velocity
8.4 Software Development
- Explain Pair Programming and Mob Programming
- Explain Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Explain Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
- Explain Refactoring
- Explain Emergent design
- Explain Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Explain Automated testing
Domain 9 - Learn about Agile in Practice (10%, 4 Questions)
9.1 Describe the following Agile approaches
- Explain Scrum
- Explain Kanban
9.2 Explain how the following practices can remove the need to adopt a scaling method such as, Scrum of Scrums, SAFe, LeSS
- Explain Refactoring solution architecture
- Explain Decoupling team dependencies
- Explain Decomposing into independent goals
- Explain Shortening cycle time
9.3 Explain why the following metrics are indicators to healthy Agile teams
- Explain short lead time from business need to solution deployment
- Explain the team is continuously improving
- Explain meantime to restore
Exam Format
- Exam Name: BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile
- Number of Questions: 40
- Exam Fee: £174 (£145.00 + VAT)
- Exam Format: Multiple-choice
- Passing score: 65%
- Time Given: 1 hour
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