iSAQB AGILAAgile Software Architecture Training

  • 30 credit points toward CPSA-A

Fact sheet

Duration
3 days
Format
Live online or On site
Language
German and English
Credit points
20 methodical and 10 communicative

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About the course

What this course is.

The AGILA curriculum 2025.1 gives designing architecture as a team 300 of its 1080 minutes, more than any other chapter. That is what the course does: preparing and moderating decisions in a group, recording them as ADRs, carrying architecture requirements in the backlog, and checking the design with lightweight reviews and fitness functions.

AGILA has no exam of its own. Attendance earns credit points toward CPSA-A admission; the certification is an assignment and an oral exam by iSAQB-appointed experts, after all admission requirements have been met.

iSAQB curriculum
2025.1
Advanced Level
AGILA
Dates

Dates for this course.

No public AGILA dates are scheduled right now.

The next public date has not been announced. Join the waitlist to hear when it is set. For a team of four or more, we can run the course in-house on your date.

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Before you book

Is this the right course for you?

Who it's for

  • You own architecture inside a self-organised team.
  • You get architecture topics into a backlog and a refinement.
  • You moderate decisions instead of taking them alone.
  • You support several teams without authority over them.

Prerequisites

Recommended

The curriculum expects experience designing and developing small to medium software systems, preparing, documenting and communicating architecture decisions, and initial agile project experience. Knowledge of Scrum, Lean or Kanban and automated testing and builds helps.

Curriculum, 7 topics

What the course covers.

The topics follow the iSAQB AGILA curriculum 2025.1. Your trainer works through them live with the group.

  1. Introduction to agile software architecture
  2. The agile architecture approach
  3. Architecture requirements in agile projects
  4. Designing and developing architectures in a team
  5. Reflection and feedback on architecture work in the agile context
  6. Supporting Architecture (spanning multiple teams)
  7. Examples of agile architecture work

After the course you can

  • Match architecture effort to the risk a project carries
  • Shape an architecture vision and a walking skeleton
  • Anchor quality requirements in stories and backlogs
  • Prepare and moderate an architecture decision in a group
  • Document architecture decisions as ADRs
  • Trace an architecture problem to its cause in a review
  • Select fitness functions and run them in the pipeline
  • Advise teams on decisions instead of taking them

How the training works.

  1. Before the course

    Before the Albion AGILA course you receive the materials and either the joining details or the address of the venue.

  2. The course days

    The course days follow the same programme online and on site; the times are on the date you booked.

  3. After the course

    From 80 percent attendance you get the Albion certificate of participation; the credit points count toward CPSA-A admission.

After this course

Credit points, and the certificate you take home.

Certificate of participation

To receive it
At least 80% of the course time attended
The certificate, shown in English

Credit points

30 credit points toward CPSA-A

This course has no exam.

Technical
0 credit points
Methodical
20 credit points
Communicative
10 credit points

What you still need for CPSA-A

This course contributes 30 of the 70 credit points required. Your total across modules must include at least 10 points in each area.

You also need the CPSA-F (Foundation) certificate; the official rules cover the remaining eligibility and assessment requirements.

Official CPSA-A requirements

Why book with Albion.

Every promise here is one the Terms can be held to, on every course.

  • Verified digital certificate

    Every certificate Albion issues has a public verification page, and the certificate showroom shows a sample of each one.

    See the certificate showroom

  • Accredited trainers who work as architects

    Your trainers are accredited iSAQB trainers who work as architects, so the exercises come from systems they have built.

Who teaches this course.

Accredited for this course.

Related modules.

  1. You are here

    iSAQB AGILA Agile Software Architecture Training

    Credit points from this course

    Technical
    0
    Methodical
    20
    Communicative
    10

    This course only. Your previous modules are not included.

  2. Explore related modules

    This list has 8 modules.

    CPSA-A requires 70 points, at least 10 in each area, plus the Foundation certificate.

Questions before you book.

Does AGILA have an exam of its own?

The Albion AGILA course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.

How many credit points does AGILA carry?

The Albion AGILA course carries 30 credit points under the iSAQB curriculum 2025.1: 20 in the methodical area of competence, 10 in the communicative area and none in the technical area.

Do I need CPSA-F to attend AGILA?

You do not need CPSA-F for the Albion AGILA course, and the module can be attended without a CPSA-F certification. Only applying for the CPSA-A exam requires a passed Foundation exam.

What do I get for attending?

For the Albion AGILA course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance. It records that you attended and depends on no exam.

Does AGILA run differently online and on site?

The Albion AGILA course follows the same programme online and on site.

Is there a discount for several seats?

Albion applies a group discount for several seats in one AGILA booking. Whether it applies to a date, and from how many seats, is shown on the date's row and at checkout.

Does my team have to work with Scrum?

The AGILA curriculum prescribes no process model; it treats agile models such as Scrum, Lean and Kanban side by side. The Albion AGILA course therefore also fits a team without Scrum.

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