Quests

What does a quest look like in a professional/career context? How do we provide a framework for these clearly (?) defined challenges that lead a participant through some steps to achieve some specific learning?

I'm loosely defining "quest" as different from other achievements, through the following characteristics:

• Clearly defined goal
• Measurable and verifiable
• Takes multiple steps
• Has an outcome
• May be collaborative
• Requires some research or action

I'm not sure that this doesn't include anything and everything.  Where it is distinct is from the gaining of experience as part of one's employment, education, or volunteerism.  While these things should accrue "experience points", they are not quests.

So let's distinguish between quests - activity in service of achieving some specific goal - and time-based experience. Both accrue experience points, and quests also accrue some other kind of points or recognition.

Badges? Bangles? Tokens or icons?