The I.T. world is full of accreditation on the face of it it all sounds sensible but is it really?
As I run a training company I looked recently at a well know I.T. accreditation programme; I shall keep the name to myself for now.
I was surprised to see that it was the exams that were accredited not the training and it involved both substantial fees to be paid to the accreditation authority and lots of process and bureaucracy. There was no insistance on qualified trainers either PTTLS or ITOL which seemed a bit ironic to me.
The exam providers get there exams approved, quality control the examiners/course directors and then the approved examination centres train delegates to pass their exam.
Is accreditation therefore more about making money for accreditation authorities that improving professional capability or am I being cynical?
As a qualified trainer I am more interested in delivering long lasting skills and capability than getting delegates through tests.
Perhaps this is why senior I.T. leaders say to me "Well the team got accredited but they still can't do the job - is this perhaps what is going wrong?
Perhaps accreditation is creating the wrong behaviours, creating closed shops and delusion particularly when ignorant agents and HR professionals are filtering out candidates based on their accreditation credentials; but that is another subject for another day.
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