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| Quote of the Week |
| "We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns." |
| - Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian Filmmaker, 1932-1986) |
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| Agile CMMI: No Oxymoron |
| In the ongoing battle between traditional and agile methodologies, many proponents of each side exhibit a general intolerance to the other's ideas. However, this adversarial attitude is not just unreasonable, it's counterproductive to the task at hand: developing the highest-quality software in the shortest possible time. To that end, approaches must be limited by neither hidebound structuralism nor free-flowing flexibility. To the new generation of agile practitioners, the 13-year-old Capability Maturity Model (CMM) may seem to symbolize all that's stodgy in traditional development. However, the melding of Software CMM with the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute's other main maturity models (for systems engineering, software acquisition, workforce management and product development) in the form of CMM Integration (CMMI) deserves another look. (6 pages) |
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| Stretching Agile to fit CMM Level 3 |
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Agile practitioners pride themselves on highly productive, responsive, low ceremony, lightweight, tacit knowledge processes with little waste, adaptive planning and frequent iterative delivery of value. It is often assumed that CMMI compliant processes need to be heavyweight, bureaucratic, slow moving, high ceremony and plan driven. Agile developers often skeptically perceive formal process improvement initiatives as management generated inefficiency that gets in the way of productivity. At Microsoft, however, they adopted the teachings of W. Edwards Deming and stretched their MSF for Agile Software Development method to fit the requirements for CMMI Maturity Level 3. The result was a highly iterative, adaptive planning method, light on documentation, and heavily automated through tooling. This article by David J. Anderson is the story of how mixing Deming with Agile produced such a lightweight CMMI solution. (14 pages) |
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| CMMI Level 2 Within 6 Months? No Way! |
| Global Analytic Information Technology Services, Inc. (GAITS) decided to receive a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2 rating within five months. The purpose of this article by George Jackelen is to show that when an organization is already doing competent project management, the effort to benchmark that capability by using CMMI is almost straightforward, and it is possible to achieve a Level 2 CMMI appraised rating within six months. This means there must be management support, the right CMMI project personnel, selection of the right effort(s) to be evaluated, and a CMMI appraiser who understands the company's effort and provides positive feedback. (7 pages) |
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