[consulting] Drupal Certification

[Rian B]

Sounds like we have enough good ideas in this thread to just do the thing
better than any other certification program ever has. I just don't
understand what you'd grade anyway.  Module familiarity? Theme dev? Module
Dev?  I honestly question the possibility of even being able to grade a
person's coding skills.  There are a lot of intangibles involved. Variables
too. Intangibles and Variables. Even some intangible variables.

Maybe a better idea would be a site specific validator type service? Using
developers as judges of other developers sites?  That's taking drupal dev to
a whole new level.

=P

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Sheryl <gubydala at his.com> wrote:

> Jeff Greenberg wrote:
>
> > So with development, even though I give a nod to the fact that sooner or
> > later there will be Drupal certification, I again question the value.
> > You can assure a minimal amount of knowledge. Unlike being in the middle
> > of a nursing day, a developer could easily look up the information, if
> > ever needed, from the exam.
>
> My objection to the sysadmin-oriented certification exams is much the same.
>
> A few years ago I had a technical interview which IMO was much better than
> anything I have seen in certification sample tests.  It was all about
> problem solving.  Over an hour or two I was given some of the usual trivia
> questions (which ports do SMTP, ssh and ftp run on, that sort of thing)
> but the interesting part was being presented a number of scenarios and
> asked about how I would go about tracking down the problem.  Some were
> chosen specifically to put me unfamiliar situations.  For example, the
> interviewer knew that I had MySQL experience but not Oracle.  He gave me a
> long Oracle log from one of their real-life incidents that showed a
> cascade of error messages and asked me where I'd start problem-solving.  I
> speculated correctly that most of the errors were fallout from an apparent
> login problem in the first page of output.
>
> > I guess I'm saying that the difference between a low score and a high
> > score on a certification exam for a software person is academic, and
> > really doesn't speak to whether they can deal with clients, their specs,
> > digesting their business need, or turning out a function let alone an
> > app or site.
>
> I agree.  It also doesn't speak to how long it took them to pick up the
> skills you're testing them for or how long it would take them to learn
> something new if there's a business need for that.
>
> Sheryl
>
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