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North American Commerce Bank Selected International Scrum Institute As Its Training And Certification Partner For Scrum and Six Sigma Frameworks

North American Commerce Bank Selected International Scrum Institute As Its Training And Certification Partner For Scrum and Six Sigma Frameworks

As of February 2026, we are glad to announce a signed partnership protocol between North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services and the International Scrum Institute.

North American Commerce Bank and the International Scrum Institute work closely together to meet the training and certification needs of North American Commerce Bank's highly talented and engaged professional units in various project management and business execution methodologies, particularly in Scrum and Six Sigma project development, delivery and productivity improvement frameworks.


Participants from the North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services have already been earning certifications through various professional programs from the International Scrum Institute, including Scrum Master Accredited Certification™, Scrum Product Owner Accredited Certification™, Scaled Scrum Expert Accredited Certification™, Agile Coach Accredited Certification™, Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt™, Certified Six Sigma Green Belt™, Certified Six Sigma Black Belt™ and Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt™.


Yeliz Obergfell, Scrum Institute's co-founder and vice president of client experience, added that:
"We, all establishments, regardless of public benefit or private entities, live in an era where we can only sustain our long-term success and impact by increasing our productivity and diminishing wastes at every work we perform. We appreciate North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services for this valuable investment in their valuable employees who perform their duties on the front lines to serve their clients and stakeholders. As International Scrum Institute, we can't be more pleased to have this duty and privilege to serve North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services with our training and certification programs."


As of February 2026, the North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services from San Francisco, United States of America, selected International Scrum Institute as its responsible partner to train and certify its esteemed professionals in various frameworks taught by the International Scrum Institute. Both parties agreed and signed this partnership protocol in April this year.



About North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services

North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services (EGS) is a critical component of the North American Commerce Bank's strategy to leverage distinct advantages in doing business in a global environment. North American Commerce Bank Enterprise Global Services is primarily an extension of the North American Commerce Bank's technology, operations, knowledge services, and corporate support teams. It engages in application development and support, testing, other technology functions, international operations, knowledge support, middle and back-end banking process solutions for a broad spectrum of North American Commerce Bank's needs. The entities currently have 8500+ team members across their offices in the USA, India, Brazil, and Great Britain.



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Scrum Institute empowers Scrum professionals worldwide to build their careers and companies to sell outstanding agile products and services.


Scrum Institute's popular Scrum Training serves more than 447,000 monthly visitors. Inside each training episode, Scrum Institute shares the biggest "a-ha moments" and software engineering secrets with complete transparency. From tough lessons learned, to mindset, to pure delivery strategy, Scrum Institute pulls you into a world of real engineering and business professionals, and shares the journeys and secrets of organizations building great software without firefighting.

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