Hello, Kristina Anderson wrote: > I would sure welcome a NYS professional license for > software developers > and want to know would anyone else want to get active on that? It > could require a certain number of years of actual paid > experience and a > test and whatever else...I'm 100% in favor of this if it > helps us get > more respect. As Urb pointed out, other types of engineers do have > licensing.
Jim Hendricks wrote: > The real discussion is not on what qualifies one for the > profession, but rather, how do we accurately measure > ability. I don't have the answer to that question. And, > I think that were an answer to that question readily > available, there would be no need for this discussion. > Maybe part of the licensing process should borrow from the > medical community and require a period of "residency". Peter Sawczynec wrote: > So, maybe if firms and sites (PHP.net and all such related sites) > started advocating cert programs as one of, if not the first serious > step, toward an evolving measurable genuine industry competency and > competitiveness that would help programmers more effectively work > towards and achieve known knowledge levels that might have nationally > known pay scales. > > Then a programmer could plan a career and salary objectives a little > more logically. And businesses could budget and allocate programmer > workforce more exactly. > > Somewhere, something is all good and better than the existing free for > all. Kristina, Jim & PSaw, This is the gap that The Open Group aims to address. Their IT Architect and new (looks like just released) IT Specialist programs require you to submit a package detailing your education, but more importantly, experience and project history. There's a baseline that needs to be met for certain skills, along with a board review. It requires a significant amount of time (and cost, though cheaper than a degree) to prepare. The program is not technology specific and measures people and business skills as well. This differs from a traditional approach to certification which requires the user to sit for a two hour test and answer some multiple choice questions. It might be worth looking into. Certification overview http://www.opengroup.org/certification/ IT Specialist Certification Progam http://www.opengroup.org/itsc/cert/ IT Spec Cert Guide http://www.opengroup.org/itsc/cert/docs/ITSC_Certification_Guide.html Package templates http://www.opengroup.org/itsc/cert/docs/templates.tpl -Dan Daniel Krook Senior IT Specialist Content Tools Developer - SCSA, SCJP, SCWCD, ZCE, ICDAssoc. Global Solutions, ibm.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
