SCEA or PMP?

[sanjay patel]

Hi,

After five years of experience and working as a project Leader, what would be more preferable in terms of career growth PMP or SCEA?

Thanks
Sanjay

[Rambo Prasad]

Sanjay,
What is PMP and SCEA??Can you please expand the acronym?

[Geoffrey Chu]

Since I have a MBA -which includes a little bit of everything-, I did the SCEA. I am planning to do the PMP later.

My advice, go technical first and then functional. SCEA and then PMP.

[sanjay patel]

Originally posted by Rambo Jalsa:
Sanjay,
What is PMP and SCEA??Can you please expand the acronym?

SCEA is Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
PMP is Project Management Professional

[Reza Rav.]

From effort point of view:
You can get PMP with few effort it is easy but SCEA I heard is very hard to get.

I think in management environment nobody seek for certification (they look for university degree) but of course if you have PMP you gain management knowledge.
In technical environment SCEA is very cool

but it is hard to say which one is better because they are not related thing to compare.

[Prashant Tejura]

Even for a seasoned J2EE juggernaut, passing SCEA can take up to 8 months -1 year with job.

If you have that kind of adrenalin, it�s advisable to utilize it into SCEA.

[Svend Rost]

Where do you want to go - career wise?

[sanjay patel]

Originally posted by Svend Rost:
Where do you want to go - career wise?

hi,

Personally I would prefer to have a combination of techincal and management. But in my apprsial my manager suggested me to go for an MBA/PMP degree as he feels my management skills are much oustanding then my technical skills.

Thanks
Sanjay

[Prashant Tejura]

patel bhai, kai company ma kaam karo cho?
SCEA karo to jordaar rehshe.

[Kj Reddy]

Originally posted by Prashant Tejura:
patel bhai, kai company ma kaam karo cho?
SCEA karo to jordaar rehshe.

Prashant, avoid using local languages in JavaRanch forums as it is accessed by many people who do not know our local languages.

Thanks

[Billy Tsai]

just get both