Daniel Gent, erstwhile Information Quality Blogger, has written a very nice and to the point post about the CIQP certification efforts over on his personal blog, Data Quality Edge (thanks to Jim Harris at ocdqblog.com for pointing it out on Twitter).
Daniel says:
The International Association of Information and Data Quality has been raising funds for a noble [...]
First off, apologies to everyone who was expecting a Question of the Week this past week. Unfortunately conference engagements and ‘day job’ duties have bogged me down a bit the past few days.
However, some of our readers hav nudged me to do something about it and a Question of the Week for next week will [...]
Every profession needs two types of benchmark. The first is the benchmark of the skills that are needed to perform the related roles in that profession. CIQP is the initiative that will bring about that benchmark for the IDQ profession. Our Job Analysis survey will give a benchmark of the elements within the knowledge domains [...]
OK, the polls closed on Friday and the responses to the Question of the week for last week are:
80% agree that the development of the CIQP certification will lead to increased/new opportunities for trainers in the IQ/DQ field.
20% disagree.
My personal view is that there is clear potential for new opportunities, whether through refocusing teaching materials [...]
Earlier this month, Christian Walenta was interviewed about certification by Dylan Jones of DataQualityPro.com. Dylan is an IAIDQ member and we were very glad of the opportunity to talk a little bit about the certification program.
Key points from the interview are:
Certification is a very important step in the evolution of the IDQ profession.
The IAIDQ community [...]
I wrote a post over on my personal blog recently about the development of CIQP. Jim Harris posted this comment on that post:
I agree that this type of certification is greatly needed in our industry. Information Quality must be embraced as the business/technical symbiosis that it truly is. I believe that the IAIDQ CIQP program [...]
First off, I want to be up front and clear about my motivations for writing this post. Yes, I’m the Publicity Director for the IAIDQ. Yes, I’m one of the fund raising team working on the efforts to develop the CIQP certification. Neither of those facts is a secret, and indeed I am proud of [...]
DAMA’s CDMP certification is a certification for data management. In the DAMA CDMP you can select a Data Quality exam as one of your electives out of the many on offer to satisfy DAMA’s 3 exam requirement for their CDMP qualification.
By comparison, the CIQP certification is focussed purely on the broad range of skills required [...]
After the workshop in Raleigh (see Keith’s posts below) the IDQ Certification team have moved to the next stage in the process with the issuing of the Job Analysis survey being emailed out to a selected demographic to get the first definitive study of the skills we use as IQ/DQ Professionals.
Once that study is completed, [...]