My training planned for December (TOGAF and PMP)

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So i've been an architect now for 14 years, working for various clients both perm and contract across a variety of sectors (online, manufacturing, legal, finance).. Right now i'm leading a team of architects on a major data centre migration programme.. so life is good.

But. boring.

So i've booked up two weeks of training in December. One week for TOGAF 9.1 (thought it's about time I actually had a certification for my job, however irrelevent it may be).

The other week initially I wanted to do PRINCE2, but after talking to an old boss of mine, he suggested PMP. I am free to do either..

However.. There's opportunities with my current client in the cloud realm next year. Agile stuff, devops stuff, etc. I understand the concepts, loosely, but I am not sure if there are any training or certifications worth doing in those areas.. (I am not a developer, although I have dabbled with various coding in the last 33 years)..

Any thoughts on getting certified for modern day IT?
 
It's a fair point. I think I just want to have choice of both orthodox/legacy structures/roles and new age stuff, like devops. E.g. what is the equivalent of a lead architect in the devops world? Whatever that is, what are the certs..
 
dowie said:
The first one you mentioned would seem to be the most relevant. But I wouldn't necessarily start pursuing these things for the sake of it. If you've been successfully landing jobs without either for several years they're unlikely to do much for you now. (having said that they're not going to take to long to obtain either)

I think if you're going to make a commitment to part time study in order to progress to a senior level then go the full hog - go back to university and study for a masters either part time or full time - for general management grab a good MBA or perhaps specific to senior IT roles maybe something like the below would be nice to have:

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/programmes/degrees/mpm/programme-outline
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Yeah, I have considered an MBA. It's a bit commitment though, both time and financial. I've been in positions before where clients wouldn't convert me to perm because I didn't have a degree, even though I had considerably more experience than the permies with degrees in the team. I guess some companies want to see that kind of commitment. Maybe.

But with regards to the vocational stuff, i've already invested in the training vouchers, just need to choose the right courses. Part of it is just general curiosity, I like learning new things (in a classroom). TOGAF is just there to help during agency searches. It's not like anyone would actually check certs anyway!
 
android-fan said:
HiWould you recommend the TOGAF course with no relevant experience? Thanks
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Not really. It's exceptionally dry and doesn't teach you how to be a good architect.

Personally I think being an architect comes naturally. You have to detach yourself from all of the individual roles in administration, engineering, security, development etc. and genuinely sit above that and use rationale and data to drive governance and decisions (and thus designs).

Is your employer offering you specific training or just giving you some budget to pick your own? If the former then i'd just go along with it and see what happens; if the latter then you could try something like TOGAF or Zachman framework but it's not the path I followed (I did no specific training to become an architect).
 
Canned the TOGAF/PMP training, in favour of Amazon AWS architect, both associate and professional courses and exams. That'll do for next year.
 
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