Comments on: Against Certification at Eurostar

By: sachin

sachin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:25:54 +0000

I truly agree with the fact that practical experience and NOT certification help you in tackling with real life problems. Unless otherwise you have experienced a problem in the past, you will not be able to remember it if you face it again later on. I have seen people who just cram things and do lot of rote learning just couple of days before examination and then just pass the certification with flying colors only to light up their resumes for little increase in salary. Then after some time if you ask them about that they just seem to forget what was that certification all about.
Practical Real Life Experience Has NO Substitute.

By: The Dan Ward

The Dan Ward — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:39:56 +0000

One of my instructors recently pointed out that the trick in communication between customers and developers is *not* to become aware of exactly what the other person is saying, but rather to understand what the other person is trying to tell us…

[James’ Reply: Nice way to put it.]

By: Adam Goucher

Adam Goucher — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:16:51 +0000

I just watched Brian Marick’s video from the recent AAFTT workshop on ‘boundary objects’ which is all about what Matt was talking about. It’s only 5 minutes long, but a darn good 5 minutes.

The video is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4874934879625567262&q=AAFTT-adam