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Not sure I grok how certification via an evaluative approach against the
BOK can take place until the BOK is complete and released into the wild. I
thought certification was going live shortly (or for that matter has
already gone live).
On Tue, July 20, 2010 9:57 am, Bill Swallow wrote:
>> However, my thinking was that certification and the STC project to
>> develop
>> a "Body of Knowledge" were joined at the hip and that certification
>> wouldn't become possible until the BOK was fully developed and released.
>> I
>> thought that at that point, STC would be going down the same path as PMI
>> which bases PMP certification on testing of applicant's understanding of
>> their BOK.
>
> Mike, that's exactly the plan, only it's an evaluative approach against
> the BOK.
>
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> Bill Swallow
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