Agile Certifications are Wrong!

Kent Beck, the father of Agile, labelled it: “dishonest”, “a pyramid scheme”, & “cancer”. Be aware of those ‘certified’ agile professionals.

Most IT people have heard of the Agile Alliance, a kind of governing body behind Agile. We also know that training/certification is a huge market now 🤑. You might have worked with or bumped into some scrum masters and agile coaches. However, there is no “Certified Agile Coach” according to Agile Alliance.

My interest in Agiles started in 2000 after reading the classic “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change” by Kent Beck, the father of Agile. I presented the XP and Agile at one team’s brown bag meeting, the project manager ( a fan of Waterfall) hated the idea and commented: “it was a cowboy act”. I ignored him and continued reading/learning the agile stuff from Kent Beck, such as TDD and Martin Fowler, such as refactoring, in my spare time.

I worked on my first real agile project in 2005. The six weeks of pair programming with my mentor, a world-renown programmer, totally opened my eyes and changed my view of programming and software development. In 2006, I renamed my company to “AgileWay”. It is fair to say that I entered the Agile world earlier than most IT professionals. More importantly, I have…