Jumpstart the business agility journey with an agile mindset.

Learn the paradigm shifts necessary to enable organizational agility in today’s innovative business climate. This starting point is for professionals outside of the software delivery space (e.g., HR, Finance, Marketing).

Overview

In today’s Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment, business agility is more and more critical for success. The tools that served us well in the past don’t necessarily still apply. Change is constant, disruption is an expectation, and innovation is a competitive advantage.

People at every level in organizations must focus on customer delight and bring innovation and continuous improvement into their work. Aligning teams and organizations around a vision and a strong sense of purpose are essential to enable high performance. It also provides a key source of inspiration, engagement, commitment, and organizational cohesion. During two highly immersive days, participants learn by doing. They explore scenarios and apply techniques to envision and design the future, experience new ways of thinking, and work in teams. Business agility foundation training is vital to adopt agile ways of working for enterprises.

Skills Covered

  •  The mindset and culture that business agility instills.
  •  Identify and apply the way of thinking and culture that enhances Business Agility.
  •  How to define your customer(s) and how you add value to them.
  •  Recognize and execute the techniques to analyze and improve work practices.
  •  Learn and practice plans to define and add value to the client(s) while practicing agility.
  •  Explain and implement the methods to use value sources, Kanban values, principles, and standards.
  •  Classify and apply Agile and Lean thinking to reduce waste and create a space for creativity.
  •  Understand different approaches for enhancing business agility.
  •  Difference between agile software development and agile way of working.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this program. However, at least 3 years of work experience would be beneficial.

Target Audience

Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary to enable organizational agility in today’s innovative business climate will find the Business Agility Foundations course compelling. Although this is a generalist certification and an entry point to several ICAgile tracks, it is not intended to be a direct substitution for the ICAgile Certified Professional credential. Those already holding the ICP are likely to find this course compelling, especially if they are on a journey towards business agility outside of a software development context.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Awareness: The Need for Business Agility

  • Business Agility: Drivers and Criticality
  • Business Agility: Values, Principles, and Dimensions
  • A case for Change: Empowering Teams
  • A case for Change: Customer Value and Continuous Learning

Module 2: Compelling Vision, Focus, and Clarity of Purpose

  • Compelling Vision and Clarity of Purpose
  • Focusing on the Big Picture and Emerging Future as an Agile Business
  • Understanding Customers, Stakeholders, Business and Emerging Markets

Module 3: New Ways of Thinking

  • Developing a Growth Mindset
  • Blind Spots, Mental Models, Patterns, and Sense-Making
  • Relationship between complexity and Business Agility
  • Recognizing and Managing Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Polarities

Module 4: New and Differentiating Behaviors

  • Ask vs. Tell: High-Performance Questions
  • Making Value Visible
  • Experimenting and Hypothesis Testing
  • Complex Dynamics of Change, Polarities, Systemic Problems and Disruptive Threats

Module 5: Frameworks, Tools, and Techniques

  • Lean Systems Thinking
  • Lean Startup and Canvases
  • Design Thinking Approaches
  • Flow-based Values and Systems
  • Iterative Framework and Sampling of Practices

Module 6: Business Agility as the New Normal

  • Creating Space for Optimal Engagement and Value Creation
  • Action Plans and Tools to Accelerate Business Agility
  • Continually reinventing
  • Measures of Success

Dates & Locations

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September 23, 2026 - September 24, 2026

Location: Online
Modal: VILT
Availability: TBC
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Exam & Certification

  • This training is certified by International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), a certification and accreditation body.
  • Upon completing your course assignments, submission, and approval, you will receive (knowledge) certification in ICP- Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF).

Training & Certification Guide

Achieving the ICAgile Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF) demonstrates an ability to articulate the values, principles, and dimensions of business agility. Business agilists can formulate an action plan for applying agility in their workplaces and can appraise and use a variety of frameworks, tools, and techniques to jumpstart the organizational and individual transformation towards a more responsive, value-driven reality.

  • The Need for Business Agility
  • Developing a Growth Mindset
  • Implementing and Sustaining Business Agility
  • Action Plans and Tools to Accelerate Business Agility

Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone interested in the paradigm shifts necessary to enable organizational agility in today’s innovative business climate will find Business Agility Foundations compelling. Although this is a generalist certification and an entry point to several of ICAgile’s tracks, it is not intended to be a direct substitution for the ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) credential. Those already holding the ICP are likely to find this course compelling, especially if they are on a journey towards business agility outside of a software development context.

Every ICAgile-accredited course includes hands-on learning. You’ll need to actively participate in a live class to earn this certification.

When you successfully complete your class and your post-class survey, you’ll earn a certificate that you can share with employers and your professional network. Certificates are downloadable PDFs configured for uploading and sharing on LinkedIn.

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