All CAL Trainer applications must align with CAL 1 or CAL 2 Learning Objectives. You may review all current CAL resources HERE.

CAL Trainer candidates and applications must meet the following requirements:

• Be an active Scrum Alliance certificant in good standing (free of Scrum Alliance Code of Ethics complaints or violations). 
• Hold, and have visible on their Scrum Alliance profile, an active CSP-SM, CSP-PO, and/or CAL 2 certification.
• Hold, and have visible on their profile, a (deprecated) CAL I credential, an (deprecated) CAL Essentials certification, and/or an active CAL 1 certification.
  • If applying to provide CAL 2, must have CAL 1 approved before submitting to provide CAL 2, and hold an active CAL 2 certification. 
• Clearly describe their instructional path and goals, including their differentiating personal approach.
• Validate at least 12 months, within the last 84 months, of both agile leadership and enterprise leadership experience (could be overlapping), including key learnings and impacts to your trainings. [Enterprise experience requirement WAIVED for CEC].
  • Agile experience may include:  helping leaders shift/transform in an agile context, direct leadership development coaching/consulting, working as a senior leader within an agile organization or with agile teams, leading change initiatives for an organization of more than 50 people (where responsibilities include managing senior level conflict).
  • Enterprise experience may include:  working for or with an organization of more than 50 people and/or multiple units/teams/departments focused on a business objective(s) (where responsibilities include managing budgets/payroll, and/or influencing decisions for multiple teams, direct involvement in setting direction and strategy).  Experience does not include:  working for your own personal business/company.
• Have facilitated or co-facilitated at least 8 leadership courses within the last 60 months.  At least one of these courses must be co-facilitated with a previously approved CST or CSAT CAL Trainer. These courses may be certified or uncertified. [WAIVED for CST or CSAT].
• Submit mapped CAL 1 training materials, which validate the most recent version of the CAL 1 learning objectives.
• Provide a thorough course offering overview for each course submitted, painting a portrait of the student experience.  This overview must detail the minimum 16 hours of instruction per course.  You may be submitting course materials and/or mapping that were co-created or are proprietary to your company/employer. For the purpose of evaluating your unique CAL trainer application, we want to see you, and your story, come across in your materials.  Show us your personal, differentiating approach to agile leadership.  
  • Please credit all sources where appropriate and request appropriate permission(s) for photos, illustrations, etc. Please include with your application a list of sources to be acknowledged.  It is YOUR responsibility as the candidate to make sure that you have appropriate rights and licenses to any materials you use.
• A CAL trainer candidate must successfully complete a Training Skills Assessment (TSA) after all course materials are approved [WAIVED FOR CST or CSAT].

NOTE: The CAL 1 and CAL 2 trainer applications are sequential. Access to the CAL 2 portion of the application is granted after a CAL 1 application is approved.

Scrum Alliance General Application Appeal Process can be found here.

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Scrum Alliance strives to be inclusive and accommodating to all candidates. If you require special accommodations for any reason, including disabilities, language or other communication barriers, or other challenges to participating in the Trainer application process, please contact applications@scrumalliance.org with a description of the issue and Scrum Alliance will do our best to work with you to find an acceptable solution.

Scrum Alliance Trainer applications are intended to provide personalized insights into your own experiences and abilities in your own words and style. As such, Scrum Alliance does not permit use of generative artificial intelligence tools to generate your answers to application questions. However, you may use assistive technology to aid in communication, such as grammar checkers, translation tools, and similar software, even if the technology incorporates artificial intelligence. In other words, you must do your own work but may use AI tools to improve it.