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Nancy Van Schooenderwoert certifies that Ward Cunningham is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill concepts and tools for agile software development, based on this evidence:

his invention of wiki and FIT (for unit tests), as well as his insights and help offered in how to maintain the discipline of TDD, in conference sessions I attended on a few occasions. I have interviewed Ward a couple times for articles I wrote, and was impressed by the story of how he and Kent originated the ideas that later became XP through his early work testing microprocessors. Ward was encouraging when I discussed my early agile software metrics, and he knew of others doing similar work - very helpful to me.

Jens Coldewey certifies that Ward Cunningham is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill all aspcts of agile and other techniques, based on this evidence:

I had lots of personal and email conversations with Ward both in the agile and the pattern community. He is one of the kindest, most thoughtful and innovative persons I have evr met.

James Shore certifies that Ward Cunningham is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill software design, based on this evidence:

the simple elegance of the Fit framework, combined with our conversations about it while working together to port Fit from Java to C# in 2003.

Rob Myers certifies that Ward Cunningham is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill creating agile tools and techniques, based on this evidence:

Ward invented the Wiki, and first used it as a Design Patterns repository; he co-invented CRC cards and Extreme Programming. He invented FIT. Look behind many of the major innovations of software over the past 15 or so years, and there's Ward lurking quietly, and modestly, behind them.

Ward is also gregarious, approachable, and encouraging. His coaching style is gentle, and often subtle and indirect. His most simple statements (such as "test-first is not a testing technique" or "code what you know") often contain practical wisdom.

Martijn Meijering certifies that Ward Cunningham is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill Extreme Programming, based on this evidence:

Ward Cunningham is considered one of the giants in the agile field. He is one of the founding fathers of the patterns movement in software, creator of the c2.com wiki and the concept of wiki's itself, the author of the Episodes pattern language (a precursor to XP), creator of the functional testing framework Fit as well as lot of other great ideas beyond agile software development.

I have never met him in person, so this is a data point with little weight. I know I'm not alone in thinking he is one of the great men of XP, and it seems to me that large numbers of lightweight data points should add up to a lot of evidence.