We are curious to hear from Business & Technical TBMA's who have completed TBM Executive Foundation Certification.  Was the training beneficial to you in your current position?  If you had to choose between TBM Executive Foundation Certification or an AAEP which would you pick and why? @Samir Banker

I think it depends on what your role is and what you would be doing. I am a TBMA and will be taking the Executive Certification later this year. Part of my job was to implement the Planning and Cost Transparency modules and build/customize reports, troubleshoot, etc. The AAEP has been very helpful with the technical courses that it provides. I also have financial meetings with IT.  My interpretation of the Executive Certification is that it provides the reasoning behind implementing the tool and what kinds of things you can do with the data in the tool once it is ready. There are some introductory courses into this type of information in AAEP, but this is a whole 2 day course to go over the concept. Also, I believe there is a continued education requirement to keep your Executive Certification.

Yep, depends on your role - if I had to choose between the two - as a technical TBMA, I would have to go w/the AAEP bc it's the gift that keeps on giving - EF is one course - AAEP is as many courses as you can take in a year.

Training is always good. 

I'm with @Jenny Franklin. TBMAs benefit from executive foundation to get that business perspective. Very helpful as they need to engage with their stakeholders. And eventually all TBMAs will need to do that.

In my dreams all of my stakeholders would take the executive foundation class.