Finished the Stat-A-Matrix course. Now I'm off to New York in the morning.
OK barb - you can tell me how you were laughing thinking about me being in the class now. By the way, the instructor said the tests were make more 'strict' in January of this year. Used to be 10% didn't pass but now the average fallout from each class is 30%. How pleasant to know it's harder than it was a year ago.
In reality I took the course from Excel 4 years ago. I looked at the book when I got back (no - I didn't pull it out before I went up to this course, though maybe I should have) and that Excel course was a wimp course comparatively. But - that was 4 years ago. I thought that course was a bear....
Did I learn much? With consideration to the fact that I've been doing implementations for quite a while, well, yes I did. Not in the interpretations area, but in general I gained a real close look at the 'other side' and how it operates. At the least, it made me wake up for a week. Up late. Quizes. Test. Work shops. It was a long week.
The class was a good class. Participants were pretty involved and we hummed right along. The instructors were good. One was especially good (Mike Held). The other guy was kinda slow (Larry Tweedt). Mike got everyone excited. Larry had a harder time pulling that off. I remembered a guy from long whom we called 'slow death'. Long story.
No one in the class would fess up to being there with the intention of making Lead Auditing (as it were) a vocation/occupation. All were from companies including Elizabeth Ardin, Maytag, NIST (!), and such. They were the majors that I remember.
Would I recommend the SAM course: Sure. I have no real complaints. It went quite well.
Now - the question is ---- Did I pass? I guess I'll find out in 6 to 8 weeks.....
[This message has been edited by Marc Smith (edited 09-20-98).]
OK barb - you can tell me how you were laughing thinking about me being in the class now. By the way, the instructor said the tests were make more 'strict' in January of this year. Used to be 10% didn't pass but now the average fallout from each class is 30%. How pleasant to know it's harder than it was a year ago.
In reality I took the course from Excel 4 years ago. I looked at the book when I got back (no - I didn't pull it out before I went up to this course, though maybe I should have) and that Excel course was a wimp course comparatively. But - that was 4 years ago. I thought that course was a bear....
Did I learn much? With consideration to the fact that I've been doing implementations for quite a while, well, yes I did. Not in the interpretations area, but in general I gained a real close look at the 'other side' and how it operates. At the least, it made me wake up for a week. Up late. Quizes. Test. Work shops. It was a long week.
The class was a good class. Participants were pretty involved and we hummed right along. The instructors were good. One was especially good (Mike Held). The other guy was kinda slow (Larry Tweedt). Mike got everyone excited. Larry had a harder time pulling that off. I remembered a guy from long whom we called 'slow death'. Long story.
No one in the class would fess up to being there with the intention of making Lead Auditing (as it were) a vocation/occupation. All were from companies including Elizabeth Ardin, Maytag, NIST (!), and such. They were the majors that I remember.
Would I recommend the SAM course: Sure. I have no real complaints. It went quite well.
Now - the question is ---- Did I pass? I guess I'll find out in 6 to 8 weeks.....
[This message has been edited by Marc Smith (edited 09-20-98).]