APPENDIX A: ROLE DELINEATION STUDY (RDS) PROCESS
Defining the Responsibilities
The first step in developing a certification examination is to define the responsibilities of the
recipients of the certification. It must be known what the individuals who perform agile activities
actually do on the job before a content-valid test can be developed. A valid examination draws
questions from every important area of the profession and specifies that performance areas
(domains) considered more important, critical, and relevant be represented by more questions on
the examination. Defining the role of individuals who serve in an agile capacity occurs in two
major phases: one in which individuals currently in the role defines the responsibilities and
another in which the identified responsibilities are validated on a global scale.