Tuesday, December 06, 2005

CMMi in a box???

From microsoft's website:

"MSF for CMMI Process Improvement provides process
guidance designed to accelerate the achievement of
Level 3 - Defined Process - in the staged representation
of the model. Using this process template is no guarantee
of receiving a level 3 appraisal, indeed only 17 of the 21
process areas are covered. However, this process template
has been designed to enable a software development
organization to achieve level 3 with a minimum of
bureaucracy and the lightest possible
documentation set."

This whole "Process Improvement in a box" idea wigs me out.

Using a "Process in a box" will give me a requirements template, but it
_CANNOT_ ensure that I will fill out the template _WELL_, and that is the
real goal, right? One of the KPA's for CMM level 3 is Organizational
Training Program, and I don't see any process in a box providing that out of
the box. So processes in a box that promise level 3 are ... I'll let you
fill that in.

I am ESPECIALLY concerned when people try to pair CMMI and Agile.

Those two concepts have very different value systems; trying to mix them
is kind of like making a peanut butter and fish sandwich - yeah, it's
technically possible, but why would you want to do that?

Personally, I am much more interested in accomplishing "People Improvement" to create CMM-X level CULTURES.

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