> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:20:57 -0400
> From: Stephen Potter <[email protected]>
> To: Richard Chycoski <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> This has always been more of my idea of what we should do for certification.
> Most professional certifications ("Board Certified") require [...]
> I would think that part of a LOPSA certification [...]
I would like to prompt the conversation to take two tracks, one
"short-term" and one "long-term", the long-term solution being of the
nature of a full-fledged 'LOPSA Board Certified" objective.
The short-term objective (which is what I had in mind when I started
this conversation) is that of being of providing some sort of
creedence or standardization to the current mix of tests that an
individual could take, something like a "LOPSA Endorsed" tag.
I believe that the experience of "our" doing this will lay the
groundwork for actually going the full distance and creating a
certification track.
Let me say that I don't assume for a moment that either of these
processes will resolve the great unanswered questions of life. The
trigger that prompted me to broach this subject was discussing the
choices in Linux of installing on one big disk slice or using multiple
file systems. (No, I'm not going to discuss these choices here!) The
crux of the conversation came down to: "Did someone making the choice
between one or the other know the ramifications of each choice?"
It is that basic question that I'd hope a first level LOPSA
endorsement would address. not "what is best" but ensure to employers
that as someone who's passed the first level of the LOPSA testing
process I know both of these options and what the pro's and con's of
each choice are.
Additionally, we don't have to concentrate on a singular provider of
testing standards, we can use one for linux, one for MS-Windows, one
for AIX, etc.
I for one have always found that the wide difference between how I do
things and how the previous guy did things to be a source of confusion
and annoyance to my employers.
Thanks for letting me stir things up.
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<< MCT >> Michael C Tiernan.
Is God a performance artist?
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan
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