Solution architect here who spends a lot of time with Microsoft's stack. I've got absolutely no certifications of any kind and refuse to take part in the certification circus. It serves only to generate an ecosystem rather than to solve problems and costs companies a lot of money.
We've thrown our partnership agreement in as it is not valuable for us and the certification management is a pain. We can't get staff with certifications and people don't want them any more anyway and we can't force people to take them.
At the end of the day, it's a dying concept. You can't get bummed out about something which was circling the drain years ago.
Regarding fit for purpose staff, we've had people with wonderful CV's jammed full of experience and certifications galore but when it comes down to it, a blind monkey would be a better asset when you have you have to diverge slightly from the preprogrammed certification skills.
I somehow doubt you would have preferred a blind monkey over an MCM. Your comments are totally fair for the rest of the certifications, though, and that's why people are upset. The rest of the certs are often held by blind monkeys.
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Solution architect here who spends a lot of time with Microsoft's stack. I've got absolutely no certifications of any kind and refuse to take part in the certification circus. It serves only to generate an ecosystem rather than to solve problems and costs companies a lot of money.
We've thrown our partnership agreement in as it is not valuable for us and the certification management is a pain. We can't get staff with certifications and people don't want them any more anyway and we can't force people to take them.
At the end of the day, it's a dying concept. You can't get bummed out about something which was circling the drain years ago.
Regarding fit for purpose staff, we've had people with wonderful CV's jammed full of experience and certifications galore but when it comes down to it, a blind monkey would be a better asset when you have you have to diverge slightly from the preprogrammed certification skills.
I somehow doubt you would have preferred a blind monkey over an MCM. Your comments are totally fair for the rest of the certifications, though, and that's why people are upset. The rest of the certs are often held by blind monkeys.
Agree but there are no MCM's in the UK.
Sure there is - Simon Sabin, Christian Bolton, and John Sansom come to mind just off the top of my head.
And precisely how do you fill our 105 man team with such people?
(we're not a startup)