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Taking a different tack, perhaps someone, somewhere, is trying to tell you something . . .
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I'm sure they are, but I can't work out what it is? 
We are already a software house that uses C#.net, SQL & Azure. We use MVC for an API, but not the view side of things, and we don't use .net core yet. The people are also a mix, so for example, the people who know Azure best are typically different people to those who know C# and SQL best. I consider myself a pretty experience developer, I've worked with a wide range of tech, almost all around the Microsoft ecosystem, so I should be an ideal candidate for these certs, but I have a few gaps in the specifics and I would like to have a way to add to my knowledge and fill those gaps without just randomly hunting around through MSDN docs.
So is the thing they are trying to tell me that we aren't eligible for partnership status because we don't use one specific piece of technology that they have on the certification path? Or because our people have a mix of skills rather than each person having the full stack? That would be a bit frustrating.
Or is the thing they are trying to tell me that the exams are being deprecated soon hence they aren't bothering to keep the material up to date? In which case, it would be nice if they removed them from requirement for partnership.
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Simon P Stevens wrote: Or is the thing they are trying to tell me that the exams are being deprecated soon hence
Consider the face-in-their-phone crowd coming in behind you - they're heavily adapted to not learning since they can 'look it up on their phone' - so, no sense alienating them.
As for certs - you are probably aware that a substantial number of professional programmers never to a computer science course in college - have a degree (if any) in something else.
Depending upon the type of coding, the real value added could just be a combination of experience and innate talent. The exams will show the possibility that a person has, at the least, been exposed to the material - but do you want, say, a carpenter who's read all the books on carpentry and woodworking to work on your house? "Ooops" is, alas, an important and necessary teacher.
Meanwhile - those with the money that hire us often have their notion as to importance based upon articles they read about "The Latest and the Greatest".
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Just send me $39.95 and I'll designate you a MS. Certified
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Great. Does that count towards the MS partnership too
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... but JIRA is such a stinking pile of sh*t!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Must be how it was implemented. We use it with minimal issues.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Must be how it was implemented. We use it with minimal issues.
Some of it is the user experience, for example, how the styling toolbar scrolls up, up, and away when writing a comment on a ticket.
Other things are how unintuitive (though some may disagree) it is to do things. I spent 30 minutes googling and looking for how to create an epic. You can't just create an epic in the "assign epic" dialog. Oh look, it's really stupidly simple -- go to the Roadmap and just add it there. Wow, that's intuitive.
I often work on things outside of the sprint -- I want to see all the things on my board, not just the damn sprint.
I'd like to review tickets I've completed so I can revisit my notes for similar issues. Seems like an impossible task. I keep separate notes. 
And why can't I assign a ticket to two or more people? I get the idea that the issue should be specific enough for the person, but seriously, don't force me into the JIRA way of thinking -- there are times I want a general issue to start with, assigned to the people that are going to be involved, and maybe if they need further guidance, I'll break it out into specific issues for each person.
The list goes on...
[edit] I want a status that is more flexible, like "waiting for customer to reply". Possibly configurable, but I can't find it in the settings. They could make it easier with a right-click or gear icon[/edit]
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
modified 16-Apr-19 15:11pm.
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Okay if I needed to do all those things I probably would become just as frustrated.
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Marc Clifton wrote: why can't I assign a ticket to two or more people?
Maybe you should do what my employer does - eliminate staff and reassign their responsibilities to the survivors until only one person applies to any given issue. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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But on the bright side, it generates all those email, every time anyone edits anything. 
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Agreed.
Edit - I heard the creator(s) made a stupid amount of cash out of it too, if it makes you feel any better.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I hate Jira too. Our shop hit the stop button with them about 2 years ago, and have not looked back.
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What do you use instead? If any.
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We use TFS currently. While it is not perfect it is far less of a headache for us than Jira, and integrates nicely with VS
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That's not a good option. I have developed a strong dislike for the inflexibility of TFS.
But we're using trello as a bugtracking system at the moment and it's far from optimal.
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We run 2 enterprise solutions through TFS. We have QA testers, Project Managers, etc. using it too with no major issues. I guess it all comes down to personal preference, and business needs.
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Bugzilla?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, now, elephant and rhinoceros dung, among other fruit-eating animal dung, is quite "productive", in that the animals "transport" the seeds to other regions wherein they poop and the seed can then grow.
Here, have an Elephant CRAPpooccino: Elephant Dung Coffee: Smooth, Rich, Expensive - YouTube[^]
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
modified 16-Apr-19 14:54pm.
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MacSpudster wrote: Elephant CRAPpooccino
Yeah, I'd read about that a while ago. Can't say I'm motivated to try it. And while an employer forces you to use certain tools, thankfully we haven't gotten to the point where they force me to eat and drink their coffee. Though in some places I've been at, it got almost to the point of telling the employees when they are allowed to "go the other way."
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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We actually refused to use it halfway into the training...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Hmm, yeah, toolitis, it's going around.
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