Project Framework / Management certifications

Question

So there's ITIL, and PMP, and Project+, and etc. etc.

What are your preferences? I heard that PMP and ITIL can perhaps allow you to make more money. Project+ is cheaper. Has anybody actually gotten usage out of any of these certificates?

Answer 1

ITIL can probably help you to make money, but it's basically to allow suits to chew the wool over each other's eyes with PowerPointSpeak, and to make us programmers very bored and unhappy.

Answer 2

I have seen several of these "studies" and polls that try to reason that, upon obtaining a certification, you'll earn more money. What they are actually doing (on most cases) is confusing correlation and causatily.

The naked truth is that some certifications are more related to better waged jobs. Thus, if you want to make more money, following those polls results, you need to move to more "suity" jobs, and, for such transition, the certifications will only take you so far.

(Plus, as Brent's comment shows, to some people the certifications are not worth a lot; if you have a junior profile, most companies don't care whether you have a certification; if you're leaning more towards the senior profile, most certifications is mostly a matter of paying, doing some silly tests, and proving you have worked for X years...)

Answer 3

The certificate may or may not get you a better paid job, but doing the training WILL give you knowledge enabling you to do a better job with your job!

I would choose ITIL, but it depends on the nature of the job you want to do..