The Certified Agile Coach (CAC)™ certification is designed to develop the skills and knowledge required to guide teams and organizations in adopting and improving Agile practices. It covers key areas such as Agile principles and frameworks, team facilitation, coaching techniques, conflict resolution, servant leadership, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The certification focuses on helping teams overcome challenges, improve collaboration, increase productivity, and deliver value effectively. It is suitable for Agile practitioners, Scrum Masters, project managers, team leaders, and professionals aspiring to become Agile coaches. Earning this certification can enhance coaching and leadership capabilities, strengthen organizational transformation skills, and support career growth in Agile project management and software development environments. Certification requirements and assessment methods may vary depending on the issuing organization.
Agile Coach certification introduces participants to essential team coaching skills & team development ideas for starting and growing teams while focusing on teams and organizations as human systems. A key part of this certification focuses on developing an understanding of the professional coaching skillset and the value of honing these skills to serve professionals on an agile team.
Our Agile Coach Certification focuses primarily on the mindset, roles, and responsibilities of an Agile Coach. After completion of this certification, you will be able to differentiate between and among mentoring, facilitating, professional coaching and teaching, and they will also gain the skills needed to create a safe environment for meaningful collaboration and healthy conflict resolution within a team.
Whether the coach is internal or external to the organization, agile coaching covers a broad spectrum that covers teaching, mentoring, problem solving, planning, leadership, team-building and mastery of skills and knowledge. Agile Coaches must challenge organizations to change culture for establishing new paradigms which permit agile-lean thinking and quickly deliver value.
Course Duration: 20 to 25 Hours
e-Competence Framework (e-CF)
The mapping of this certificate against the e-Competence Framework. To know more on e-Competence Framework (e-CF) visit, ECF
The exam comprises of 50 Multiple Choice Questions out of which the candidate needs to score 70% (35 out of 50 correct) to pass the exam.
The total duration of the exam is 1 hour (60 minutes)
The Certified Agile Coach (CAC)™ is valid for life
CAC™ is a Trademark of GAQM.
The Certified Agile Coach (CAC)™ Certification has no pre-requisites (Completion of an E-Course is not mandatory from GAQMBok portal), but we highly recommend doing the E-Course as maximum number of questions are drawn from the E-Course in the actual exam.
Agile Coaches or aspiring coaches with an enthusiasm for servant leadership and a desire to learn and practice facilitation, professional coaching, mentoring and teaching in the administration of agile teams.
