At that point it was 550-pages and it didn’t make much sense then (there were 180 Authors, after all). Today it is at 850+ pages, and probably makes less sense now. When they failed me, yes after 10+ years doing this by then, all the qualifications under the sun (including Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PRINCE2, TOGAF Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master and MBA) in the pilot exam that only 100 people were supposed to be on, despite only 2x people โ myself and one other, putting their hands up when asked in the European Conference in Berlin (2015)โwho was on the pilot?โ, implying the other 98-people were from and in America.
On the date the results were published on their public website, displaying all 250 names (read that again. 250, not 100), mine wasn’t on them. I made an inquiry. Not only did I not pass, โafter the scalingโ they said(?), when requested to see or receive the actual results; areas I could improve or send it to an independent marking body like those used by Universities and students in the UK to conduct an impartial and unbiased assessment, they refused.
I questioned why there are โ250 peopleโ on the list when there was only 100 people on the pilot. They said they bought a failing business and they had a certificate, so they โgrandfatheredโ their certificate, confirming they now had more (1.5x) people โcertifiedโ by their standard, against their own book, who had never needed to open it nor to read it, let alone sit an exam under the same conditions or criteria, are now calling themselves โCertified Business Architectsโ. Oh, OK?
It was then when I received a letter from their lawyer telling me to cease and desist my line of questioning or be banned for life. Seems they were now beyond reproach and question, they send in their lawyers, to their own members? But that was not the thing that did it for me. What did it was receiving a direct email from the one of the founders of the said organisation, telling me โyou(I) should get some trainingโ โ they had just approved the new โpreferred training partnerโ!
After 10+ years in the business, called in to setup and turn around numerous transformations, including for the most powerful government in the world, I needed further training(?). I am not adverse the training, I actually encourage it, after it, it is how I got this far, but I thought I would check. I checked who owned the training company, and you can guess who owned it. Yes, one of the founders of the body. No conflict of interest, much? I suspect I possibly didn’tย actuallyย fail, but I was definitely a prime candidate to also โtest their trainingโ!?