Do agile certifications mean anything?

[Kent Sharkey]

CIO[^]:

Agile certifications aim to provide a meaningful way to benchmark software development skills and process and/or product management. But are they really meaningless credentials that provide no value?

As much as other certifications

[Erik Burd]

The funny thing about agile certifications is that although my CSM certification expired in 2013 (and is CLEARLY listed on my resume), I get phone calls from recruiters asking for a certified CSM. Certifications are pretty much useless with exceptions in security and some IT shops. Otherwise they're pretty much only useful as low grade toilet paper.

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

It highly depends on the quality of the paper... ;)

Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

[Vark111]

They mean a lot, and are enormously valuable... ... to the people who get paid to give out such certifications. Think about it. Without certifications, where would the certification industry be today?

[Dan Neely]

Is this an article about if certs are worth anything, or an advertisement for the SAFe certificate pretending to be the former. I know which way I'm betting.

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