{"id":2257,"date":"2014-04-03T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:01:22","slug":"the-seven-stages-of-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"the seven stages of expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayland-informatics.com\/The%20Seven%20Stages%20of%20Expertise%20in%20Software.htm\">The Seven Stages of Expertise in Software Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 1: Innocent\n<ul>\n<li>barely knowledgeable if at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2: Exposed\n<ul>\n<li>seeking knowledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3: Apprentice\n<ul>\n<li>has read case studies and tries to apply those techniques<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4: Practitioner\n<ul>\n<li>can actually apply concepts learned in one context to a not-identical context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5: Journeyman\n<ul>\n<li>professional understanding and application of the field; can mentor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 6: Master\n<ul>\n<li>moved from &#8220;whats&#8221; and &#8220;hows&#8221; to &#8220;whys&#8221;; can mentor very effectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 7: Researcher\n<ul>\n<li>the teacher, presenter, mentor, speaker, evangelist, writer, authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Presented firstly in the humorous guise of <em>The Seven Stages of Expertise in Bear Hunting<\/em>, {{Meilir Page-Jones}} makes a highly-compelling case for progressive advancement in [nearly] any field.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ideas seem similar to what {{Malcolm Gladwell}} brings in {{Outliers}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/02\/16\/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell\/#.UzotRK1dUrY\">review<\/a>) or {{Robert Greene}} does in {{Mastery}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/01\/28\/mastery-by-robert-greene\/#.UzotcK1dUrY\">review<\/a>). Which seems to only lend more credence to those other works, given that this article is \u00a9 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found The Seven Stages of Expertise in Software Engineering. Stage 1: Innocent barely knowledgeable if at all Stage 2: Exposed seeking knowledge Stage 3: Apprentice has read case studies and tries to apply those techniques Stage 4: Practitioner can actually apply concepts learned in one context to a not-identical context Stage 5: Journeyman &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2257\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the seven stages of expertise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,11,38,48],"tags":[162,237,298,300,855],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-education","category-review","category-work","tag-career","tag-development","tag-experience","tag-expertise","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}