Re:

I was an MCT and MCSD for several years until the Win Arch exams retired
officially. I can easily renew by taking the Solution Architecture exam
70-100, but I'm not sure I see the point. My rate isn't going to go up
either way in other words. I suppose if there was a "must have" demand on
the MCSD I would rush out and take that one last exam.

Sean



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> "To me, the overall market seems to be moving towards inexpensive
> incompetence: under-specified, under-bid, and under-delivered
> projects. But the monthly bill is less!"
>
>
> Absolutely...and about a year from now there will be a lot of jobs
> open in order to fix the "work" done by these scrubs today.

True, but will the "fixes" be done by what Tom called "artisanal"
programmers? For that matter, if the scrubs say "This is what is known as
iterative and incremental development, you got something out there fast and
cheap, it doesn't quite meet your needs, and now we modify it," what will
you argue? Scrubs modifying sloppy code will eventually become bogged down
(probably), but not for several iterations of their sloppiness. And, as a
good programmer, you will probably be _more_ pessimistic than the scrubs if
you're up to bid for the fixing job: they'll say "Oh, we can change that,"
and you'll say "It's a complete mess and to prepare for the future, you
should refactor the whole thing."

These thoughts are making me reconsider my long-held viewpoint that
certifications are a waste. Any MCADs or MCSDs on the list care to share
their cost-benefit analyses?