On #CMMI from the Q&A from Panel @ #Agile2010
I don't know if it was one of these panelists in a different session, off-line, or someone else somewhere else, but a tweet from the conference claimed all sorts of nonsense supposedly coming from some "authority" on CMM. I'm glad to see the panel treated the content well. This is only the Q&A regarding CMMI.
Agile 2010 - Industry Analyst Roundtable
Posted by Shane Hastie on Aug 16, 2010
On Tuesday afternoon the conference hosted an Industry Analyst round table to hear their take on the current state of Agile and where the industry is headed in the future.
The four panelists were:
· Dave West, Forrester Research
· David Norton, Gartner
· Melinda Ballou, IDC
· Michael Azoff, Ovum
The next question asked “What is the future of CMMi?”
Dave West
The SEI have published a paper talking about the future of CMMi that talks about the need to be more agile, and more ITIL but the details are not yet available. CMMi is not going away, and it will change significantly, but what shape that future will take is unknown at this point.
David Norton
The area of CMMi that gets all the press is the Staged Version, which talks about the maturity levels. Behind the scenes there is a continuous improvement focus that looks at the practices and techniques, and it is in this area that the CMMi will grow and change.
Michael Azoff
CMMi is about telling you what you should do from a process perspective, not telling you how to do it. There is a healthy exchange between CMMi and the Agile community at the enterprise and very large scale area where there will be a healthy intersect between Agile at scale and CMMi.
Dave West
The world would not miss CMMi if it went away, but it is probably not likely to go away.
David Norton
The largest area of conflict with Agile is not CMMi, but with ITIL – ITIL imposes restrictive practices in change and release management that do not fit well with Agile approaches.
Dave West
This is where Agile leaders should be engaging – working with the ITIL teams to identify ways to change the ITIL approaches to work well with Agile practices.
Melinda Ballou
There are opportunities to engage with ITIL and identify common ground and adaptive approaches that meet the organisational needs and still embrace the Agile adaptability.
Both CMMi and ITIL standards need to be applied with common sense – build on the best of what we have, and pull in the other pieces to create a synergistic whole that delivers maximum organisational value.
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