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I don't know that I'd rush to call all unions and professional organizations a failure. Certainly, say, the AMA or the NSPE has a certain usefulness (if you dis
by pnathan 13y ago
I don't know that I'd rush to call all unions and professional organizations a failure. Certainly, say, the AMA or the NSPE has a certain usefulness (if you disagree with that, I don't think we have a common ground to talk about this, I am afraid). But I do agree that structural questions about a credentialing/professional organization do exist and have not been adequately resolved in the sw development field.
- brc 13y agoI was specifically relating to the world of software.
- pnathan 13y agoSorry, I wasn't aware that you had confined your comment to our industry. I am in quite definite agreement with you that extant credentialing efforts don't appear to have been successful. I don't think they are intrinsically doomed to failure, however. Suppose that an organization was constructed by professionals from industry organizations who buy into the idea of a credential recognizing competence (as has been done, for instance, in the non-virtual engineering field in the form of the PE). What specifically would be the problem there in your eyes?