I am sitting in the third day of the "Agile Developer Skills Workshop" lead by Ron Jeffries and Chet Henrickson. We are trying to define an inventory of agile skills and how a generalized system to compensate efforts in becoming a better agile developer. The first day we outlined the area - one outcome was a nice mindmap of what we wanted to accomplish. The second day we discussed about an inventory of agile skills and how a community owned system to encourage and assess agile skills could look like. Today seem the pieces fall into the right places. Chet Hendrickson came up with an idea for a reference model of qualifications. One dimension would be outlined along the seven Pillars model (http://groups.google.com/group/agile-developer-skills/web/draft-summary-of-chica...), which is an attempt to cover the different areas of agile developer skills. The other dimension would be skill levels like • Understood – exposed to (e.g. read a book about it) • Attempted (could lead to self assessment) • Did it (could lead to 3rd party assessment) • Improved my understanding • Improved others understanding • Improved the state of the art The real nice part is that you can use this reference model in a number of ways: for self assessment, certification or even rating a course or a qualification program. You could be a member if you had a „understood“ level in at least one of the pillars. This would make you a „seeker“ in the quest to become an agile practitioner. You could „did it“ call a certification, if you had reached it in all of the seven pillar categories.