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Organizations face a real challenge to qualify people to engage in project work, and the almost universally accepted solution is certification. But certification doesn’t guarantee ability. In fact, it doesn’t even certify knowledge when so many of the “right” answers on these exams are actually wrong in the context of real-world project management.
"Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. Therefore. I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th. D...that's Doctor of Thinkology."
I can’t read the trades or open my in-box without being sideswiped by some promotion for another project management certification program claiming to provide validation of fundamental project management skills. How these vendors accomplish this isn’t at all clear, but the centerpiece of their offerings appears to be some variant on a certification exam.
Looking back on my own long exam-taking history, I can honestly report that no exam I’ve ever taken certified my ability to do anything, except perhaps to pass or fail the exam.
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