Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) Training & Certification Program | 2 days - 8 hrs/day | 9 am - 5 pm UK Time

Frequently Asked Questions

• Why train with ValueX2?

  We are a diverse team of Business Agility Coaches and Consultants that think that increasing an organization's business agility is essential for being able to sustain profitability. We help our participants and our clients understand the importance of ‘Agile as a mindset first’ along with developing a clear understanding of how to optimize flow of value creation for customers.

  We believe that agile methodologies shouldn't just be used by software teams; everyone in every function has a job to play in making a company truly agile.

  Our goal is to provide other business teams, such as Finance, HR, Marketing, and Operations, with the tools and methodologies they need to adopt business agility in a people-first manner. This is in addition to empowering software teams to scale up agility at the enterprise level.

  Benefits of training with ValueX2 are:

  • Elite Trainers
  • Training is interactive and imparted with real-world case studies
  • Post-training support to help you grow in your career and implement agile mindset at your workplace
• What is ICAgile?

  ICAgile is a leading global agile accreditation and certification body. By providing learning programs that build the capabilities necessary for business agility ICAgile is on a mission design learning experiences that cultivate an agile mindset. ICAgile via it’s rigorously accredited courses delivered by their member organization provide globally-recognized certifications. These are backed by Learning Outcomes and Competencies and motivate people towards genuine competency in their domain.

• Is ValueX2 an ICAgile Member Organization?

  Yes, ValueX2 is an ICAgile Member Organization. Being a member organization, we create and provide leading agile learning experiences that drive business agility.

• Is the course offered by ValueX2 accredited by ICAgile?

  Yes, All our ICAgile courses i.e. Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF), Agility in HR (ICP-HR) and Agility in Marketing (ICP-MKG) have gone through ICAgiles’ rigors course accreditation process. This ensures that the courses and training we deliver satisfy all the Learning Outcomes, provide top-quality learning experiences, are highly interactive, and guide people and the global community toward greater agility.

• Who will teach and conduct the training?

  The training is delivered and conducted by ICAgile Authorized Instructors and very experienced Agile Coaches who have deep domain expertise and make the course extremely interactive.

  Our committed team of instructors provides training that meets the high criteria of excellence established by the leading Agile bodies like ICAgile. Regardless of the trainer or location, every candidate receives the same high - quality content. They aid in your continued development of the abilities and knowledge required to contribute to your organisation.

  Through Instructor Authorization, ICAgile verifies the teaching skills, domain knowledge, and experience of an instructor.

• What is included in the training fees?

  The training fees include the online live instructor-led training and certification costs. Additional benefits include:

  15% Discount on future training

  Lifelong support and access to a community of Agile Coaches and Mentors to help you progress in your Agile career and journey.

• What is the refund policy if I cancel the training?

  Please refer ValueX2 Terms and Conditions for the respective refund policy. For any further queries please email us at contact@valuex2.com and we will be more than happy to help.

• Whom to contact if I have more questions and doubts?

  For any further queries please email us at info@valuex2.com and we will be more than happy to help.

• Do you offer any discounts?

  Yes, we do run promotional offers from time to time. For group bookings, corporate batches or discounts please email us at info@valuex2.com and we will be happy to help.

• What will I learn after doing the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) certification training course?

  After completion of the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) certification training course you will be able to:

  1. Awareness: The Need for Business Agility

  • To illustrate the core foundational concepts of Business Agility in relevant business contexts.
  • To clarify values and principles and why they are important enablers of building organizational intelligence;
  • To describe the role of these values and principles in cultivating new ways of thinking and working.
  • To convey that critical success factors include trust, safety, collaboration, cohesion, autonomy, mastery and purpose as well as new levels of individual accountability and responsibility for collective team success and value creation.
  • To grasp why and how to shift focus from "outputs" to outcomes by eliminating waste, doing less and accelerating innovation. Communicate why creating disruptive outcomes in today's volatile economy requires real-time knowledge generation as well as radical new ways of thinking and working.

  2. Compelling Vision, Focus and Clarity of Purpose

  • To communicate the importance of aligning organizations around a crisp, believable, compelling and inspiring vision and to experience methods for creating such visions and clear purposes.
  • Participants are able to envision the future state of business agility, then learn ways to look backwards from that future to craft a compelling path to attain it including new capabilities, skills, behaviors, practices, that need to be acquired (and why). Participants will also gain an understanding of why and how to use this activity with their teams.
  • To explain the values, principles, tools and techniques needed to develop empathy and improve awareness of customer and stakeholder context.

  3. New Ways of Thinking 

  • To describe the attributes of a growth mindset in contrast to the limitations of a fixed mindset in the Business Agility context.
  • To recognize that blind spots and mental biases exist and understand the role that our mental models play in shaping our perceptions and beliefs.
  • To provide an overview of the field of complex adaptive systems and complexity theory while providing practical awareness of relevant management models
  • To distinguish polarities (dilemmas, paradigms and paradoxes) from traditional problems and learn to see the relationship between the poles with the goal of optimizing the wins and minimizing the losses.

  4. New and Differentiating Behaviors

  • To define high-performance questions, give examples of the power they have towards enhancing organizational outcomes and discuss techniques for using them as often as possible in day-to-day conversations.
  • To emphasize that value is only delivered through the completion of a new or improved functional slice of work that is implemented and delivered to a customer for use.
  • To understand why and how to identify small, discrete opportunities, then craft hypotheses in order to frame relevant experiments.
  • To experience the complex dynamics involved when creating sustainable change and the reason why individuals and organizations (as systems) deeply resist it.

  5. Frameworks, Tools and Techniques

  • To learn why a lack of end-to-end systems thinking and a failure to focus on value throughout the organization leads to waste and ineffective outcomes.
  • To introduce concepts and applications of the Build - Measure - Learn framework for dealing with uncertainty.
  • To apply the concepts of design thinking and focus on new ways of thinking about elements of a product or solution that evolve around the customer: people, technology and business
  • To provide an understanding of the key values and practices of kanban, along with ideas on why and how to apply these values.
  • To understand and use iterative frameworks like Scrum and how they accelerate learning and discovery.

  6. Business Agility as the New Normal

  • To analyze what a business agility environment and learning ecosystem looks like and why it is vital in a VUCA world.
  • To reflect on and synthesize key learnings in the unique context of each participant's experience, work structures and challenges.
  • To identify and explain ways in which the participants can make the ongoing application of business agility part of the habitual way of working in their organizations.
  • To communicate the importance of learning agility and how empirical data and relevant, actionable metrics support real learning.
• What skills will I develop after doing ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  This is a foundational course and after attending the training you will be able to:

  • Understand what is Business Agility, Why do we need it, how can it help various business functions and the organization better align and respond to ever-changing customer demands
  • Experiment via various fun and interactive activities/tools the how to start the business agility transformation journey
  • Learn various tools and hands-on experience of canvases like – Team Canvas, Business Agility Canvas, Stakeholder Analysis, Customer Empathy tools, and Design Thinking
  • Learn how to develop a Growth Mindset
  • Practically learn how to manage personal bias and mental models
  • Apply Cynefin Framework and Polarity Mapping tools
  • Learn and practice powerful questioning techniques
  • Develop an understanding of Hypothesis driven experiments by practicing Lean Canvas and different between outcomes and outputs
  • Scrum and Kanban frameworks
  • System thinking in practice
• How much does the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course cost?

  All prices for the courses are mentioned in the Training Calendar. For group bookings, corporate batches or discounts please email us at info@valuex2.com and we will be happy to help.

• Who will benefit from doing the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  This is a generalist foundational certification and an entry point to several ICAgile certification tracks.

  The ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) certification training is suited for anyone who wants to understand the values, principles, tools, and mindset required to be developed by an organization to remain competitive and innovative in today’s dynamic world.

  • Coaches, consultants, team managers, business leaders, product managers, product owners, start-up owners, CEOs, VPs, Directors, and Senior Professionals across all industries and departments/functions
  • Agile Practitioners interested in Agile from a Business Perspective
  • As this is a foundational course anyone working in the below functions will benefit from the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) certification training:
    • Finance
    • Strategy
    • Human Resources
    • Operations
    • Sales
    • Marketing
    • Product Innovation
    • IT
    • And working in all kind of Organization Types, e.g., Corporate, Government, Academic, Non-profit.

  This course will offer a balanced learning experience of both conceptual Agile knowledge and actionable Agile practises.

• Is the certification cost for ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) included in the course fee?

  Yes, the ICP-BAF lifetime certification cost is included in the ValueX2 Training Fees.

• Does the ICAgile Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) certificate have an expiration date? Do I need to renew it annually?

  No, there is no expiration for the ICAgile Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) certificate. You do not need to renew your ICP-BAF certificate annually. The training fees includes the certification costs.

• Is there any discount or offer for the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  The Training Calendar includes the cost for each course. For any inquiries regarding group bookings, private sessions, group discounts, or promotional offerings, kindly email us at info@valuex2.com and we shall be happy to assist you.

• What are the prerequisites for doing the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  There are no conditional prerequisites for attending this Foundations Knowledge level training program. It is for anyone who wants to explore and start their agile journey and develop and Agile Mindset.

• Can I get the certification without taking the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  No, you cannot get certified without undertaking the course from an ICAgile Member Organization, like ValueX2. This course includes hands-on learning and you'll need to actively participate in a live class to earn this certification.

• What is the benefit of doing ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course forms part of the Foundational Knowledge Course offered by ICAgile. The key benefits of doing this course is:

  • Develop an Agile Mindset: Encourage everyone in your company to adopt an agile mindset so they can accept change, see failure as a teaching opportunity, and continuously get better.
  • Develop Clarity on what to focus: As you learn agile approaches, put an emphasis on values, mentality, and principles so that you can use and customise agile practises to match the changing demands of your organisation.
  • Develop an understanding of customer-centric approaches: In order to effectively serve your customers' requirements in a changing world, develop a customer-centric and value-driven strategy.
• What is the course content of the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course?

  The training covers the below topics:

  • Need for Business Agility
  • Vision, Focus, and Clarity of Purpose
  • New ways of thinking
  • New and Differentiating Behaviours
  • Frameworks, Tools and Techniques
  • Business Agility as the New Normal
  • Please download the Brochure for more details. If you have any additional queries, please email info@valuex2.com and we will be happy to help.
• How is the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course structured and delivered?

  Our ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification course is designed keeping in mind the latest research, and on-field experience from real-life agile transformations drawn from the diverse experiences of our Agile Coaches and Mentors. Further, our expert authorized trainers add examples relevant to your context to make the training even more relevant.

  The training is structured to be highly interactive, with individual and group activities and fun exercises. Regular breaks are given and our training are offered in both 2-day and 3-day formats.

• What's are the steps and process to get the ICAgile Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF) training certification?

  Attending the complete training is one of the main pre-requisites and first step towards obtaining your ICP-BAF certificate. After completion of the training and associated activities as communicated to you by the trainer, you need to follow the below steps to get the ICP-BAF certified:

  • Register for the course from ValueX2
  • Attend the complete 2-day/3-day training
  • Participate and complete the required activities
  • Upon completion your attendance will be marked by ValueX2
  • You will then receive an invitation from ICAgile to complete your post-class survey
  • After completion of the survey, ICAgile will issue your certification to your email address as a shareable PDF. A copy of the certificate can also be downloaded from your My Certifications Page.
  • Any questions or if you are facing any issues please email info@valuex2.com and we will be happy to help.
• Is there an exam after the training to get the certification?

  As per the guidelines of ICAgile, each member organization can determine how they want to assess their participants. We have a combination of in-class activities, group exercises, quizzes and few exclusive activities that our participants do to put their learning to test and practice. There is no additional exam to obtain the certification.