On the same note, I don't see how 'trying out' a DVCS makes you suddenly level 3 on the "source code and version control" metric.
Programmer competency articles are sort of a macho, nerdy equivalent of "do these pants make my butt look big?"
Programmer competency articles are sort of a macho, nerdy equivalent of "do these pants make my butt look big?"
Though, this chart implies all skills are equally worthwhile. There's another extremely important category missing here, which I'll call "solving the right problem". It might need to be split into a technical side and a business/marketing side. Solving the customer's actual problem, and using the correct technical approach vastly outweighs many of the categories listed.