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Is There Value in Lean Certification?

Last updated by Jeff Hajek on March 12, 2019

The Lean community learns a lot from each other. Two forward thinkers that I follow pretty regularly are Mark Graban of LeanBlog.org and Ron Pereira of LSSAcademy.com.

A little while ago, Mark posted an article on Lean certifications, and mentioned that he was biased against them. Ron has the opposite viewpoint. He mentioned that he had even gotten some job interviews because of his certification.

What was really surprising, though, was the flood of comments on the topic—over 50 as I write this. People seem to have a very strong opinion on the subject.

I’ve put together a short FAQ video on the subject to offer my opinion on the matter.

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