Scrum Alliance Earns Nine Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards

Agile Essentials, AI for Product Owners, and AI for Scrum Masters are recognized for helping professionals turn new skills into workplace results.

DENVER, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Scrum Alliance®, the first not-for-profit focused on agile education and professional credentialing, has earned nine Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® across three professional-development programs: Agile Essentials, AI for Product Owners, and AI for Scrum Masters.

The honors recognize Scrum Alliance's work to help professionals and organizations respond to change, use artificial intelligence effectively, and produce meaningful results in the workplace.

"Winning nine Brandon Hall Group awards tells us these courses are doing exactly what we designed them to do: help people turn agile and AI into better decisions, stronger teams, and meaningful results," said Tristan Boutros, Chief Executive Officer of Scrum Alliance. "Professionals don't need more theory about navigating change. They need practical skills they can use on Monday morning—and that's what these programs deliver."

The award-winning programs address necessary capabilities for today's rapidly changing workplace:

• Agile Essentials introduces the mindset, principles, and practices that help people and teams work more effectively in changing environments.
• AI for Product Owners helps product professionals leverage AI to strengthen product discovery, decision-making, and value delivery.
• AI for Scrum Masters equips scrum masters to apply AI to enhance facilitation, team effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

The recognition comes as organizations worldwide move rapidly to adopt AI while navigating growing complexity and constant disruption. Scrum Alliance developed these programs to give professionals immediately applicable skills, not simply an understanding of emerging ideas, but the ability to put them to work.

The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards recognize organizations that develop and deploy programs, strategies, and solutions delivering measurable business results and advancing excellence in human capital management. Submissions are evaluated by an independent panel of analysts, industry experts, and practitioners based on business need, program design, innovation, adoption, and organizational impact.

More than 10,000 organizations use Brandon Hall Group research and benchmarking. Its HCM Excellence Awards have recognized achievement in human capital management for more than 30 years.

About Scrum Alliance

As the first not-for-profit focused on agile education and professional credentialing, Scrum Alliance advances its vision of Agile for Anyone™ by equipping professionals and organizations with the education, skills, and community they need to succeed in an ever-evolving workplace. Learn more at scrumalliance.org.

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