Updates to the upcoming CAC credential
As of August 5, 2026, Scrum Alliance has announced a new upcoming certification. During the work on the previously planned agile coaching certification, the scope of the project expanded to reflect that organizations are increasingly looking for professionals who can combine coaching capabilities with broader consulting, organizational change, systems thinking, and business problem-solving skills. Therefore, Scrum Alliance will be providing the following credentials:
- Agile Coaching Essentials Microcredentials: On-demand and instructor-led microcredential courses designed for professionals seeking to enhance their foundational agile coaching skills and knowledge.
- Advanced Coaching Microcredentials: Instructor-led microcredential courses “Agile Consulting: Coaching High-Performance Teams That Deliver” and “Enterprise Agility: Aligning Culture & Structure to Deliver Results,” designed to expand agile coaching skills and capabilities beyond basic abilities.
- Certified Agility Consultant (CAC): A new agile certification is currently being developed in collaboration with a team of subject matter experts that will focus on not only coaching but also include consulting skills. The revised credential will retain core agile coaching competencies while expanding into a broader consulting framework designed to prepare practitioners to address organization-level and enterprise-wide challenges. It will focus on the capabilities needed to assess organizational systems, advise leaders, design broader interventions, and support meaningful transformation across teams and functions. It will include two current advanced microcredentials, “Organizational Agility: Coaching Adaptive Systems in Complex Environments” and “Optimizing Value Streams: Turn Friction into Flow,” as well as other topics.
The updated Certified Agility Consultant certification will diverge from the previous Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) and Certified Team Coach (CTC) written application pathways to focus on a streamlined learning journey. The aim is to provide a pathway from team-level enablement and essential agile coaching toward broader organizational and consulting responsibilities, which current market demands reflect. Scrum Alliance will combine microcredentials and assessment processes to create an accessible, robust, and comprehensive learning path that maintains a high level of agile effectiveness. Scrum Alliance believes agile coaching skills are crucial and that they should be combined with consulting skills to equip professionals to advance real-world agility.
Information about CEC/CTC program ending in January 2025
Please see below for how CEC/CTC programs are impacted:
Application portals are now closed: CTC and CEC application portals were closed on January 6, 2025. Scrum Alliance sent additional communications to applicants who were in progress to support them through this transition.
- Applications submitted by January 6, 2025, were assessed in accordance with current CTC/CEC Review Team standards and procedures. Scrum Alliance and the Coaching Review Teams are reviewing submitted and resubmitted applications that arrived by the January deadline, and are awarding CTC and CEC approvals through April 30, 2025.
- An Agile Coaching Trainer pilot is currently underway to support CTCs and CECs who wish to become Certified Scrum Alliance Trainers™ (CSATs™) for the Agile Coaching microcredentials and the future CAC. If you are an active CTC or CEC interested in this pilot, please contact the Education Programs Team.
Active CECs and CTCs will keep their designation: Those holding active CEC and/or CTC badges in 2025 will continue to display the original CEC and/or CTC badge through the current renewal cycle.
The new CAC program is currently in development: The agile consultant certification is currently being developed in collaboration with a team of subject matter experts, including agile coaches and consultants. You may subscribe to News & Updates for email updates once new information becomes available.