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- 1. Certified Stupidity Is the technical certification game finally changing?
- 3. Format
- 4. Basic Belief Individual certifications are too easy to game and therefore questionable in their value.
- 5. February 12, 2009 10:45 PM
- 8. Discipline vs. Unwashed Masses (they’re stinky)
- 14. Five Main Levels Initial (Chaotic or Ad-Hoc) Repeatable Defined Managed / Quantified Optimized
- 15. Present Day Back safe and sound in good old 2009 ($1.00 to Marty McFly)
- 17. Levels of RMM RMM 0 (“Cowboy” Level) RMM 1 (“Negative” Level) RMM 2 (“Positive” Level) RMM 3 (“Master” Level)
- 18. Where have all the cowboys gone? No formal development process No test coverage No standardized business practices Static analysis failures
- 19. Master Jedi Agile software development practices 100% test coverage 100% pair programming Formal and standardized business practices Successful deploys with considerable scaling demands Institutionalized continuous learning
- 20. The Rails Community We enjoy edginess. We don’t like a corporate “feel”. We especially don’t like “certifications”
- 21. The questions and accusations came fast and furious...
- 22. Who decides what is appropriate?
- 23. Aren’t these just things you like to do at HashRocket?
- 24. What metrics are you using to gauge?
- 25. This method seems easy to game!
- 26. Who in the world could audit something like this?
- 27. Doesn’t this screw the individual developer?
- 28. Isn’t this just a round-a-bout certification process? We don’t like those!
- 29. This will kill innovation.
- 30. In response...
- 32. Basic Principles A la carte approach to practices No attempts to set up a certification No attempts to define one model “to rule them all” Auditing downplayed Focus on customer feedback Best practices to attain to.
- 33. Quick Examples Distributed Version Control Everyone Together Pair Programming UI Specialist Role Pets Allowed in Office On-Site Customer
- 34. Questions Are certifications pointless or invaluable in your organization? Would this be a better approach for your team? How would your team perceive being judged using these metrics? How do you think you would do? Are you more Ad-Hoc than you are willing to admit?