BACKGROUND
To help people in our industry align on what it means to be an agile leader for purposes of learning, training, and hiring, the APLN Board and its Learning & Recognition committee have considered the topic of recognition since our founding. We passed the following resolutions at the 9-10 February 2007 Board Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah:
"The APLN commits to lead and support the creation, implementation, and evolution of an accreditation program for Agile Project Leaders based on design criteria including the DOI, with a draft proposal published by Aug 15, 2007"
and
"The APLN invites others to join in forwarding the Agile Project Leader accreditation program"

NEW DECISION - JULY 2007

At the APLN Board teleconference on July 9th we voted on the below resolutions - proposed by the L&R Committee. Both resolutions were NOT approved by the board.

RESOLUTION 1: For the purpose of helping our industry on what it means to be an Agile leader and thereby support learning – the APLN Board empower the current L&R Committee to publishing the L&R competences and possibly a competence-litterature-X-reference-list on the APLN website.

RESOLUTION 2: For the purpose of living up to our commitment – for the purpose of driving Learning and Recognition – and for the purpose of releasing a version 1 of the program and thereby getting true feedback from our industry - The APLN board empower the current L&R Committee to Launch and Pilot the program during Agile2007 according the version 1.4 L&R Project charter. This includes using the set of competences as guidance – as opposed to a minimum set – for the tests and exams.

NEW LEADERSHIP OF THE APLN L&R COMMITTEE

The old L&R Committee Chairman Ole Jepsen decided to step down - and let others come up with a L&R Program, that the APLN board will approve.

Pollyanna Pixton is the new leader of the APLN L&R Program.