More feedback from the blogosphere on #CMMI from #Agile2010
The sentiment is fairly close, though Kent may have been misquoted or just uncareful with his choice of words. CMMI dictates *goals* and infers that they include engineering and process quality metrics and improvement. CMMI doesn't actually dictate any metrics or that any specific thing improve.
Amplify’d from scrumerati.com
CMMI+Scrum continues to intrigue, as it demands that the organization find ways to measure and improve enterprise-wide processes, potentially complimenting Scrum's feedback loops and retrospectives at the team level. However, almost all CMMI books provide examples exclusively from waterfall. Many people talked about needing an enterprise capability model like CMMI that better reflected Agile thinking. Finally, Kent Johnson made a great comment that put it together for me: “CMMI dictates engineering and process quality metrics and improvement, but the real goal is value.”Read more at scrumerati.com





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