From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2007-12-09T09:29:06+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby certification


On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, cruiserdan wrote:

> The requirements for various bits of fancy paper is a fact of life.
> Even well-intentioned technically proficient managers may find they
> are required for their firm's due diligence process.
>
> Thus, our (the Ruby community) goal should IMHO be to identify one or
> more good certs and support them. When someone comes in asking which
> cert is the best, that is a great opportunity for us to influence the
> situation.


When I was on the Agile Alliance board, I wrote a position statement  
for it on certification. <http://www.agilealliance.org/show/1796> The  
key sentence is "employers should have confidence *only* in  
certifications that are skill-based and difficult to achieve." Laurent  
Bossavit and I are (learning Rails by) working on a website to try and  
establish the kind of "web of trust" that allows people to vouch for  
each other. We're just barely at a minimally useful deployment (it's  
not even running on Mongrel yet), but whattheheck: <http://wevouchfor.org/ 
 >

If we can get a non-laughable number of people certifying each other,  
we'll be ready to revamp the site to make it appealing for people  
looking to hire other people.

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Brian Marick, independent consultant
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Brian Marick, independent consultant
Mostly on agile methods with a testing slant
www.exampler.com, www.exampler.com/blog, twitter.com/marick