The ‘Lwanga Challenge’ seems to have struck a chord with information quality practitioners at the front-line.
As of the time of writing we have raised US$400 on this round of fundraising, bringing the total raised to date from individuals in the Community - not vendors but real ‘coal face’ practitioners to US$3052 - all of which goes directly [...]
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 [...]
The Question of the Week for Week 2 has closed recently. The question posed was
Do you believe a CIQP certification will be beneficial to your career?
The results of the poll are as follows:
60% of respondents felt the CIQP certification would be a differentiator in their career.
30% of respondents felt that the CIQP certification would be [...]
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 [...]
This is an exciting time for me. After working in information quality for the past 15 years, I am starting to see tangible evidence that information/data quality is finally establishing itself as a real profession, with a rigorous academic foundation, a wide body of knowledge, distinctive best practices nurtured and honed by practitioners in [...]
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 [...]