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In the spirit of continuous improvement, we in the software development community seek better ways to work, to learn, to teach, and to acknowledge each other. We come to this project to discuss the forces at play when we're experimenting with our work, by sharing our experiences and cataloging the skills we use. We welcome developers, testers, designers, analysts, coaches, teachers, researchers, and managers to this space.One of the things we've come to believe is there are no "best practices", because both practices and processes depend so much on context. Instead, it is the correct application of our everyday skills and the interplay between them, that we're interested in capturing here.We're told to inspect and adapt. It's time to see what skills work well, in what contexts, how to combine them, and above all, to do so empirically. Begin now by joining our Quest Ecosystem.The Agile Skills Project (ASP) is a non-commercial resource that does not receive money for its ratings. The real, underlying goal is to get people hooked on lifetime skills improvement. We use an anecdotal model to show what people are learning, be it through paid courses or self-trained study. Dan Pink says motivation comes from autonomy-mastery-purpose. We give people autonomy in choosing whether they go for certs or not, read books, or go to conferences -- but count it all as something that demonstrates progress, on their way to mastery. We give purpose to the whole thing by making it community-owned. This is what creates the motivation to support continuous improvement at the individual, team, and community levels.