Agile Certification: Love it or hate it, but deal with it

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2 points·AgileArtem··5 comments

It's certification in general that people are skeptical of. We've all met Microsoft Certified Professionals and Sun Certified Java Enterprise Solutions Architects (or whatever they're called) who couldn't code or admin their way out of a wet paper bag - and we've all met people without a single cert who are near godlike in their technical skill. If I see a cert on a CV when I'm interviewing, I always think, why did this person think they needed that? What're they hiding?

It's even worse with the Scrum crap -- your "Scrum Master" certificate literally represents a payment to a "Certified Scrum Trainer", whose certificate represents $7500/year to the Scrum Alliance.

Is it any surprise that there is management douchebaggery behind courses about same?

> The sooner there is an accepted XP certification, the better!

Does this clown have any idea what differentiates XP from his cash cow?

What is a Scrum Master?...

"What is a Scrum Master?"

It is a name for someone who sits through a 2 day seminar conducted by someone who doesn't know how to develop software but presumes to teach other people how to. ;-)

Seriously though becoimng a "scrum master" is only about attending a 2 day seminar! The guys who dreamed up this marketing scheme (that is all it is) made millions off it so you have to give them due credit.

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