
iSAQB® AGILA - Agile Software Architecture Certification
The iSAQB® AGILA module is an Advanced Level training course within the Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Advanced Level (CPSA-A) program. The course focuses on how software architecture works in agile development environments.
Upcoming AGILA Sessions
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The iSAQB® AGILA module is an Advanced Level training course within the Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Advanced Level (CPSA-A) program. The course focuses on how software architecture works in agile development environments.
Participants learn how to design and evolve software systems in agile teams where architectural responsibility is shared. The training shows how architects and developers make architecture decisions during short development cycles while keeping systems stable and maintainable.
The course also explains how to balance architecture, speed, and quality in agile projects. Topics include collaborative design practices, continuous architecture work, and practical approaches for identifying and managing technical debt during iterative development.
What You Will Learn
1. Agile Principles and Software Architecture
Understand how agile development methods influence software architecture. Learn how architecture work fits into iterative and incremental development.
2. Roles and Responsibilities in Agile Teams
Learn how architects, developers, and product owners collaborate when architectural responsibility is shared within self organized teams.
3. Continuous Architecture
Understand how architecture evolves during development. The course explains how teams maintain architectural quality while delivering features in short iterations.
4. Architecture Decisions in Iterative Development
Learn practical approaches for making and documenting architecture decisions during agile development cycles.
5. Managing Technical Debt
Understand how technical debt appears in agile projects and how teams can identify, evaluate, and reduce it without slowing down development.
6. Architecture Communication in Agile Projects
Learn how to communicate architectural ideas clearly using lightweight documentation, diagrams, and collaborative discussions.
7. Balancing Architecture and Delivery Speed
Explore methods for maintaining system stability and quality while working under fast development cycles.
8. Practical Exercises
Apply the concepts through examples and exercises that show how architecture work is integrated into real agile development environments.
Certification & Exam
Completion of the iSAQB AGILA (Agile Software Architecture) training module contributes credit points toward the Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Advanced Level (CPSA-A) qualification.
This module awards 20 credit points in the Methodological area and 10 credit points in the Communicative area.
To qualify for the full CPSA-A certificate, candidates must fulfill these requirements:
Hold a valid CPSA-F (Foundation Level) certificate.
Complete at least three years of professional full-time IT work.
Participate in the design and development of at least two different IT systems.
Gather a total of at least 70 credit points from modules in different competence areas, including Technological, Methodological, and Communicative.
Pass the final CPSA-A examination, which consists of a practical case study.
What You Will Achieve
After completing the iSAQB® AGILA training, participants will understand how software architecture work fits into agile development environments and how architecture evolves during iterative delivery.
Participants will be able to apply architecture practices within agile teams where responsibility for design is shared and decisions must be made quickly while maintaining system quality.
Participants will be able to:
Understand the role of software architecture in agile development
Collaborate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders in agile teams
Make architecture decisions during iterative development cycles
Balance architectural quality with fast delivery of features
Identify and manage technical debt in agile projects
Use lightweight documentation and communication methods for architecture
Support continuous architecture evolution as systems grow
By the end of the course, participants will be able to work effectively in agile teams while ensuring that software systems remain maintainable, scalable, and technically sound.
Training Providers
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AGILA stands for Agile Software Architecture.
It teaches how to combine software architecture work with agile principles.
The iSAQB page explains that AGILA focuses on creating, evolving and communicating architecture in agile environments, including iterative development, teamwork and fast decision-making.
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