Certification programs, imho, exist primarily for two reasons; 1. it allows developers with little experience to add credibility to their claims that they know how to develop software.
2. it allows non-technical people involved in the hiring chain to make judgements when they have no clue at all how to judge good technical competence. Course, after you've been around a while, you learn that you cannot do a proper job of judging anyone's competence, even after many hours of interviews. The proof is in the project outcome. 3. Ok, I forgot the third reason... Someone will make lots of money selling training materials and administering the tests. Did you really think Microsoft got into this side of the business just to improve the quality of technical consulting. my 2 cents (ok, maybe 4 cents), Warren Vail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Certification I find the value of such certification programs > extremely questionable. here here :D -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
