Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments in support of HB383.
My name is Richard Cheng and I am a Scrum Alliance Certieid Scrum Trainer (CST) and a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT). I am writing based on my direct professional experience working with organizations that either are or were SCHEV certified, including Excella Training, NextUp Solutions, and Sprightbulb Training. While I fully support appropriate oversight of higher education, the SCHEV certification requirements place a significant and costly burden on professional training organizations like ours, particularly in terms of ongoing maintenance, reporting, and administrative overhead.
Agile, Scrum, and Kanban training programs are already governed by rigorous and well established professional bodies, most notably Scrum Alliance and Kanban University. These organizations enforce strict standards for curriculum, instructor qualification, learning objectives, and certification integrity. In practice, this professional governance already provides strong consumer protection and quality assurance.
Our courses are short duration professional classes, typically ranging from one to three days, and they lead to well regulated, industry recognized certifications. They are not degree programs, nor are they intended to function as traditional academic education.
The current SCHEV requirements create practical challenges that directly impact students. Each physical training location must be separately certified, which makes it difficult to move classes to locations that are more accessible or better suited to student needs. In addition, the administrative overhead slows our ability to rapidly introduce new courses, even when those courses are created and released by Scrum Alliance or Kanban University in response to evolving industry demand.
HB383 provides a reasonable and targeted exemption that recognizes the unique nature of professional Agile training while preserving appropriate oversight through existing professional certification bodies. I strongly support its passage.
Thank you for your consideration.
Richard Cheng
Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments in support of HB383. My name is Richard Cheng and I am a Scrum Alliance Certieid Scrum Trainer (CST) and a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT). I am writing based on my direct professional experience working with organizations that either are or were SCHEV certified, including Excella Training, NextUp Solutions, and Sprightbulb Training. While I fully support appropriate oversight of higher education, the SCHEV certification requirements place a significant and costly burden on professional training organizations like ours, particularly in terms of ongoing maintenance, reporting, and administrative overhead. Agile, Scrum, and Kanban training programs are already governed by rigorous and well established professional bodies, most notably Scrum Alliance and Kanban University. These organizations enforce strict standards for curriculum, instructor qualification, learning objectives, and certification integrity. In practice, this professional governance already provides strong consumer protection and quality assurance. Our courses are short duration professional classes, typically ranging from one to three days, and they lead to well regulated, industry recognized certifications. They are not degree programs, nor are they intended to function as traditional academic education. The current SCHEV requirements create practical challenges that directly impact students. Each physical training location must be separately certified, which makes it difficult to move classes to locations that are more accessible or better suited to student needs. In addition, the administrative overhead slows our ability to rapidly introduce new courses, even when those courses are created and released by Scrum Alliance or Kanban University in response to evolving industry demand. HB383 provides a reasonable and targeted exemption that recognizes the unique nature of professional Agile training while preserving appropriate oversight through existing professional certification bodies. I strongly support its passage. Thank you for your consideration. Richard Cheng