Certified Software Development Professional Program

Certified Software Development Professional Program

Certified Software Development Professional

Apply by 15 August for the 1 September - 30 June 2006 testing window.
Highlights:

Congratulations to the CSDP's certified in Fall 2005!


2006 Candidate Bulletin
CSDP Examination Fee now reimbursable under the GI Bill
Register for the CSDP Online Course Software Engineering Overview:
Preparing for the IEEE Computer Society CSDP Examination
Join the CSDP Study Group Forum on Yahoo and talk to other test takers. (Group Name: ieee-csdp)

Applying for the Exam
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Application Form and Candidate Bulletin

Taking the Exam
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After the Examination

Preparation and Study
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CSDP Online Course
CSDP Resource Guide
Instructor Led Courses
CSDP Registered Education Providers
Sample Test Questions
Compilation of Software Engineering Terms
Recommended References
Recommended Reference Analysis
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)


Certified Software Development Professionals
List of CSDP Certificate Holders


For CSDP Certificate Holders
Recertification and Professional Development Education Information
CSDP Certificate Framing Program
2006 Recertification Schedule

Additional Information About the Certification Program
Is Certification for You?
Professional Certification: Fact or Fiction?
How the Examination was Developed
The Importance of Job Task Analyses

 

As per me the certification is good for software programmers who have 5+ years of experience. However once you have 10+ years of experience, it no longer carries much weigth. Rather than doing you CSDP, get PMP or CISA certified.

My $ 0.02 .

 

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The certification in my opinion is more for Software Engineers
the problem is that in USA Engineer is protected title.

It slowly earned reputation among these who understand the difference between

Programmer

Software Developer

Software Engineer

Well this is like the PE of Software Engineering.

People who can approach and provide solutions not by just writing code but by Engineering the solution, I have an honor to work with such a persons and can see the day and night defense between them and others who are Programmers and Software Developers. The class Factories, the Libraries they develop, the modeling and other Engineering tools and approach they use not only produces
optimal solution and performance but it is simply Engineered correctly. One of them is PhD and teaches Software Engineering in University on a P.T basis.

Steve I think this is very relevant certification and an attempt to create the PMP type of certification for Software Engineers.

Time will show - and I don't compare it to CMBA, CSDP is a mach better defined and in a class of its own certification.

USA Universities politicaly opose to many of the Professional qualifications for many reasons and can be discussed in another tread.

The other best alternative is Masters Degree in Software Engineering from ABET University with good Engineering school.

My humble opinion

 

Who Should Become Certified?

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Steve I agree with you,
If I compare PMP with Masters in Project Management I see that in the market place PMP has a special place. And even this is at times stronger and other times not as strong if I express my salve correctly.

I judge by DICE, Monster etc, job requirements.

So in this case I stated my own opinion and this certification is not new its been around for 3 years.

I don't see any adds requiring this credential not yet.