If architects are going to be on par with other high level
professions, then shouldn't educating aspiring architects and
filling in the gaps of knowledge through training for current
architects be more important than just simply selling a
certification? And exactly why do architects need yet another
association when there are several already?
Your point about the CPA and lawyer comparison is pretty funny and
true. It would make more sense (in my opinion) to compare what the
architect profession should be to either the medical profession or
even traditional architects...sounds less "ambulance chaser" that
way.
--- In [email protected], "Gervas
Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <<The goal of the new association is to raise the status of
enterprise
> architects to a par with CPAs and lawyers' bar associations,
according
> to the announcement made on the first day of the Open Group's
> Enterprise Architects Practitioners Conference in San Diego. The
AOGEA
> already has 700 members and the Open Group, a vendor and technology
> neutral consortium, is also offering certification programs. More
than
> 2,000 individuals have completed The Open Group Architecture
Framework
> certification and approximately 1,700 practitioners have completed
the
> organization's IT Architecture Certification since those programs
> began less than two years ago, according to today's announcement.
>
> While applauding the Open Group program, Ron Schmelzer, senior
analyst
> with ZapThink LLC, said more education is needed or SOA may be
doomed
> by sheer lack of knowledge among the people trying to implement it.
>
> "The real thing that's holding SOA back is the lack of
architectural
> experience," the analyst said. "Something has to be done. If this
gap
> isn't filled I think the entire movement to service-oriented
> architecture could basically fail."
>
> Miko Matsumura, vice president of SOA marketing for webMethods
Inc.,
> echoed this concern in an interview last week with
SearchWebServices
> where he said "the shortage of qualified visionary architects"
would
> be one of the hot button issues facing the SOA world in 2007.>>
>
> You can read this in full at:
>
>
<http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid
26_gci1241121,00.html?track=NL-
110&ad=577580&asrc=EM_NLN_948609&uid=5532089>
>
> I don't know about you, but my attention was immediately grabbed by
> the statement that enterprise architects should aspire to be
placed on
> the same level as CPAs and lawyers. Now I don't doubt that there
> exist EAs who are socially challenged/totally amoral, but I think
such
> an aspiration of professional comparison should raise a just a few
> hackles among budding EAs....
>
> Gervas
>
