Mentor

To earn the Mentor badge, an individual must work with one or more apprentices, helping them develop and improve their skills over a period of time.

Building a medium or long term mentoring relationship (12 months or longer) is strongly recommended, as is encouraging your apprentices to mentor others.

Bronze

To earn a bronze Mentor badge you must:

• • Work with the apprentice, an individual who is less skilled than you in a particular subject area, to identify the gaps in their skills and/or knowledge.

  • In collaboration with the apprentice, develop a plan to transfer the necessary information to them.

  • Over a period of not less than 1 month, communicate with the apprentice to help them build their skills. Such communication should take place no less than once per week. Three or more times is encouraged.

  • In collaboration with the apprentice, create a summary of the lessons learned by both Apprentice and Mentor and post it online for review (for example in a blog post, or posted directly to the Agile Developer Skills group).

Silver

To earn a silver Mentor badge you must:

• • Have completed the Bronze badge requirements with at least 3 different apprentices.

  • Provide documentation (in a similar manner to the summary created as part of the Bronze badge) to demonstrate an ongoing relationship with at least one Apprentice lasting three months or longer.

Gold

To earn a gold Mentor badge you must:

• • Have completed the equivalent of two Silver Mentor badge requirements in no less than two different pillars.

  • Provide documentation of mentoring relationships with no less than five apprentices.

  • Demonstrate that at least one former Apprentices has earned a Mentor badge (or an upgrade in badge status) after working with you.