Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu started his developer career in 1991, but wasn't until 1994 that he got introduced into the Microsoft world of technologies. He moved from Romania to Sweden 1996, to work as a programmer. Since 2004 he is working as an independent trainer, teaching .NET programming on all levels, but what he loves most is teaching introductory courses, because it gives him a chance to influence the future .NET programmers. He was chosen Subject Matter Expert for some of the MCPD exams, and now he is involved as a Technology Reviewer in some of the Microsoft courses that are under development. When he is not in the classroom he is doing research at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is a member of the MCT Advisory Council, Group Leader for Sweden .NET User Group, and INETA Country Leader for Sweden. His passion for speaking about new technologies, made him a very popular speaker at conferences like TechEd Europe, DevReach, TechDays, Öredev and MCT Summit. He is interested in technologies like multi-core programming, ASP.NET, new programming languages and applications security. Whenever he gets the time, he blogs at http://blog.multi-core.net/.
Track abstract - Room H2 - .NET
Practical multi-core programming in .Net
Track abstract - Room H2 - .NET
MVVM in Practice aka Code behind free WPF
Track abstract - Conversation Corner
“Certification is the best way for professionals to distinguish themselves as competent”
Gojko Adzic
Most IT certification programmes are just pyramid scams. They are
designed to sell training and not to provide either the certified
people or the companies hiring them any assurance of competence. Mass
certification that is easy to get loses any value very quickly and
ends up producing exactly the opposite effect for the certified people
after a while - instead of distinguishing themselves they become just
one drop in the sea of incompetence.
Arne Åhlander
To me Scrum is one way of several to manage product development. What possibly attracts me most in Scrum is the possibility to visualise and address problems and limitations. Because of this I have offered Scrum trainings for several years. The last two years Scrum certification trainings have been included in my offering. In doing this I have noted that the certification trainings attract substantially more participants than the non-certification trainings. For good and for worse.
I believe the good parts out weigh the bad parts and my experience is that participants of my training classes bring with them a wish and desire to improve the possibilities to develop better products when they get back home.
Tiberu Covaci
After coming second out of over 400 applicants at two different job interviews, just because I wasn’t certified, I decided to take that step, in spite the “paper certification” general feeling. By doing that I discovered that a certification is not about the paper, but about the journey, and a lot of doors opened to me after that.
