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don't call it certification!!!
acheivement unlock

hidden acheivments

randomize rewards

typing speed capture the flag?

jira as input to accomplishments

stack overflow

explicit statement that this has nothing to do with hire fire promotion

it is for fun

goals
    Launch a certification initiative    Identify 6 things we need here  Yes     Q3  An accessable curriculum    

     Present the idea at teatime     Yes     Q3  the culture validates this need???  

     Create physical and digital badges  Yes     Q3  These will be ironed on to bags/ hung in cubes. placed on wiki home     

    create a wiki page that identifies who knows what   Yes     Q3  self explanitory    

     Get 3 top-preformers to self certifty in 3 items    Yes     Q3  There will be 3 people who are certified in 3 things    

     3 others to get certified in 2 relevant items   Yes     Q4  same idea here  

     Collect feedback    Yes     Q4  80% positive feedback   

     IRC bot that can identify certs and SMEs    Yes     Q4  Easy way to find out how to get help    
                    

PROs

    low effort required to create a basic curriculum
        How do you arrive at that conclusion?
        Who does the work?
        Has anyone done this before? for free?
        Can we pay for it?

    some lessions can build on others
        Give an example.
        Do we order them?

    offers a path for top performers improve and become SMEs
        By wasting their time?
        how do we know someone knows their shit?
        can we offer honorary certification to those people we know know stuff?

    offers a path for everyone else to be able to reason about medley with more confidence
        Why is that?
        How does this benefit the organization?

    centralizes knowledge of who knows what
        Who curates this?
        How do we represent it in an easy to grok format?

    badges can finally be rolled out
        BAdges? we don't need no stinking badges?
        What value do they offer?
        Who makes them?

    we can bootstrap to levels of competence that we don't currently have
        Who is lacking in this competence?
        What will they learn?
        How is this better than relying on people to know what they don't know when they don't?

CONs

    perception that certification is competence
        

    tutorials can update if we don't pin/cache them, they might move beyond the versions we are using in prod.
        How do we manage to persist this?

    time spent teaching and leanring is time not working
        Is this even a problem?
        do we need guidance on when to certify?

    people learn in many ways this is just one
        What do we do for those this doens't serve?

    if high performers just shhgggow-me-do it might not stick. 
        can we measure that?

    qualifying what to learn is hard
        What tutorials represent the best bang for the time?
        What tutorials a relevant to our stack?
        Do we limit the tuts to backend stuff? 
        What topic is too small silly to accept?

        What do we do when someone suggests a topic?