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Agile Developer Proficiency

Agile Developer Proficiency

Recognizes practitioners who consistently apply agile engineering practices across team contexts with independence. The accredited individual contributes to technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and customer-driven development.


Requirements

1-hour accreditation interview. The candidate must: - Provide evidence of at least 2 years of experience as a developer in agile teams (or 1 year if continuously mentored by an ACA Accredited Coach). - Answer 2 questions probing judgment in technical agile situations: trade-offs between speed and quality, managing technical debt, or handling conflicting engineering priorities. - Provide evidence of consistently applying Test First or iterative design principles across multiple contexts (examples from different projects or teams). - Provide evidence of contributing to a Continuous Integration strategy and an overall testing approach (not just execution, but design of the approach). - Present 1 case study of how they embedded quality at both individual and team level: what practices were adopted, how they were sustained. - Answer 1 question on how they approach customer collaboration in their development work. - Provide evidence of establishing early feedback loops in at least 2 different contexts. - Provide evidence of structured knowledge sharing within the team (documentation, workshops, pair programming programmes, etc.). - Share at least 3 self-improvement goals grounded in observed patterns in their practice.