ABC Assessment

ABC Assessment

Agile Business Consortium

Professional Application

Welcome

We are delighted you have applied to become one of our Accredited Professionals in business agility.

Our Professional level assessment validates a practitioner's actual business agility competency against our Framework for Business Agility, ensuring an independent evaluation, regardless of qualifications or experience.

Your application will be assessed by an accredited Professional with a business agility competency equal to, or above, your own, against a benchmark for that level.

At the end of the assessment process, you will be awarded a professional competency level AND given a post-assessment report to help you understand why this level has been awarded and to provide guidance for continued growth and development.

As an accredited Professional we will invite you to join our Business Agility Community with access to a wealth of professional development resources and a supportive network of like-minded individuals committed to the aims of business agility.

Use this assessment to unlock your potential.

Instructions – please read before you continue

How many questions will you be asked?

Applying for professional-level recognition with the Agile Business Consortium involves answering questions about your background in, and experience of currently using, business agility. The exact number of questions you will be asked will depend on your individual circumstances – this is an intelligent form that adapts itself to the answers you provide.

The majority of questions are simple multiple-choice or one-word answers.

A smaller number of questions require more reflective, long-form answers. You can pause completing your application while you reflect on these questions – instructions on how to do this can be found below.

How long will it take to complete this application?

Completing this application could take anything from a few minutes to one hour or more, but this depends greatly on how many reflective questions you are asked and how much time you take to compose your reflective answers.

You can pause and resume your application at any time.

How to pause and return to an application

You can pause completing your application and resume it at any time for up to 14 days after you start it.

You don’t have to do anything to save your answers as you go – your answers will be automatically saved to your local browser as you type.

As long as you use the same browser on the same device, you can leave the online application form at any time, then later return to your My Account page on the Agile Business Consortium website to continue applying.

WARNING: Do not clear your browser cookies before you finally submit your application, or you will lose the answers you have entered so far.

The Agile Business Consortium will not see any of your answers until you submit your application. At that time, you will receive a confirmation email which will include a full copy of your application.

Select as many as you like
Select the answer that most closely aligns with your experience

Invitation to apply for Professional Level 1

As you have indicated that you are new to this way of working, you can apply for Level 1 Professional status.

Later, you can apply for higher Levels as you grow your experience of using business agility. We can help you with your development.

Invitation to apply for Professional Level 2

As you have indicated that you are a practitioner of business agility within your immediate team you can apply for Level 2 Professional status.

Later, you can apply for higher Levels as you grow your experience of using business agility. We can help you with your development.

Invitation to apply for Professional Levels 3, 4 or 5

As you have indicated that you are experienced in the use of agility, and that you influence the use of agility beyond a single team, you can apply for Level 3 (Master), 4 (Catalyst) or 5 (Thought Leader) Professional status.

The level you are awarded will depend on an assessment of your application and an interview that follows.

Later, you can apply for higher Levels as you grow your experience of using business agility. We can help you with your development.

Please read carefully before continuing

Some of the questions that follow require longer, free-text answers.

You may wish to spend time considering how you answer these.

You can Save and Return to this application to continue your work at any time. Just select the “Save” button that appears at the bottom-right of every page.

Self-assessing an example of your learning in agility

As part of the professional application process, the next set of questions will allow you to share and self-assess an experience you have had learning about business agility.

You can choose to self-assess your learning in business agility from a wide array of learning experiences, from work engagements to attending events to delving into literature. 

Select one option

Tell us a little about the team you worked with.

Make sure you include:

  • A brief description of the team's work?
  • How you are/were related to the team?
  • The start-date and end-date when you worked with the team?

Tell us a little about the event or conference you attended

Make sure you include:

  • A brief description of the event or conference
  • How did you attend – in person or online
  • The date/dates of the event or conference

Tell us a little about the course you completed

Make sure you include:

  • The title of the course
  • The date/dates when you attended the course?
  • The level you obtained on completion (if relevant) and the date you completed?

Tell us a little about the book, article or journal, etc, you read

Make sure you include:

  • The title of the book, article or journal, etc?
  • When you read the book, article or journal, etc?

Tell us about your experience and what you learned from it

Make sure in your answer that you reflect on the following:

What surprised you about this experience
Was it something you didn’t understand, or were curious about, or you didn’t agree with, or annoyed you?

Why?
Consider your reaction to the above incident; what made you feel that way? What challenged your thinking?

What next? 
Is there anything you can action over the next few months to develop your thinking and improve your understanding?

Please read the following guidance carefully before continuing

To apply for professional levels of Master, Catalyst, and Thought Leader, we ask you to:

Part 1:

Write a reflective piece based on your knowledge, practice, and experience

and then:

Part 2:

Attend an online interview where you will be asked to reflect and expand on what you have written about your practical experience.

To help you decide how to structure your reflection, you should be aware that we will use two frameworks when assessing it:

  1. Our Competency Framework that has four pillars: Knowledge, Agility, Business and Personal. This shows you the behaviours and competencies we expect from you. You will need to tell us about these four pillars based on your practice and experience.
  2. We then use Thomas Ullman's framework for analysis of reflective writing. This shows you the different elements that should be included in your writing.

Write a reflective piece

Normally we would expect a minimum of a 1000 words in your written submission.

You are free to structure your content as appropriate to you and the experience you are writing about, but it should include:

  • A description of an experience
  • How you felt during this experience
  • Your beliefs relating to this experience
  • Identification of issues and challenges
  • A description of the impact the issues and challenges had on people and outcomes
  • What you have learnt
  • What you could have done differently
  • Your ideas on how to develop yourself based on this learning and reflection.

 

You are advised to write a minimum of 1,000 words.
Maximum 10,000 characters (this is about 2000 words).

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You have answered that you have led or created a relevant industry initiative.

Maximum 300 characters (this is about 60 words)

You have answered that you have created new agile propositions, products or techniques that add to the canon of business agility.

Maximum 300 characters (this is about 60 words)

You have answered that you have published blogs, articles or books that further develop business agility.

Maximum 300 characters (this is about 60 words)

You have answered that you have been a speaker on business agility at relevant conferences, seminars or webinars, etc.

Maximum 300 characters (this is about 60 words)

You have answered that you have had success acting as a coach or mentor to the C-Suite in multiple organisations.

Maximum 300 characters (this is about 60 words)

Describe here any qualifications you have in business agility.

Please state the level you were awarded for each qualification you list.

Some examples of qualifications that include a business agility component include:

  • Agile or Project Management from APM, APMG, IPMA or PMI
  • ICAgile in Leadership, Delivery, or Enablement
  • SAFe Scaled Framework
  • Scrum from Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org or other provider

 

This is not a complete list of qualifications, and you should list any qualifications you have which contain a business agility component.

We ask this question for information purposes only – we are aware that an applicant's qualifications may not relate to their current experience or competency.

Are you prepared to regularly review, record, track and develop your continuing professional development for Business Agility in line with our CPD Policy?

You can read about our CPD policy on our website.

Do you agree to follow our code of practice, summarised in the following points?

  • Act in the best interest of organisation, customer, client, partner
  • Show respect for all
  • Positively impact society
  • Demonstrate open, honest, and trustworthy behaviours
  • Develop knowledge and competence with CPD
  • Uphold values and reputation with our professional body

 

You can read our Code of Practice on our website.

Thank you for all the answers you have provided.

You are almost at the end of the application process.

Before you submit, we would like to ask you just 2 questions that will help us improve our application process.

You can now submit your application

After submitting, you will receive an acknowledgement email containing a copy of all the answers you submitted and further instructions. Please make sure to check your junk or spam folder if you do not receive it.