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The Tester SkillsProgram 49 Fig. 2 Status iswhat we are thinking somewhere on a Kanban or other board, but does the location on the board truly represent thestatusof the feature? Consider the ‘three amigos’ of user, developer and tester. When it comes to agreeing status, it is possible that the user believes their job is done––the requirement is agreed. The developer might be writing code––it’s a work-in- progress.But the tester might say, ‘I havesome outstandingchallenges for the user to consider. There are some gaps in the story and some ambiguous scenarios we need to lookat’ (Fig.2). What is the status of the feature? Done?Work in Progress? Or under suspicion? When all threeparticipants are thinking the same way, then there is a consensuson thestatusof the feature. ContinuousCollaborationisanessentialpartofcontinuousdelivery.TheNew Modelprovidesa frameworkformeaningfuldiscussionandconsensus. 2.8 The(Current)Problem withCertification The most prominent tester certification scheme is created and administered by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board––ISTQB [7]. The training classes runandqualificationsawardednumber875,000+and641,000,respectively.