Comments on: Blaming CMMI is just another symptom … of LCPBCs

By: You’ve got processes, but . . . | Agile CMMI blog

You’ve got processes, but . . . | Agile CMMI blog — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:43:26 +0000

[...] organization was using CMMI incorrectly. A topic I cover at least in the following posts: here and [...]

By: Performance and Change | Agile CMMI blog

Performance and Change | Agile CMMI blog — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:17:41 +0000

[...] bid on work they currently can’t bid on, but that’s a problem addressed in two separate posts (here and here) from a while [...]

By: gamsjo

gamsjo — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:12:37 +0000

Hi, I really look forward to the next post! I have always wondered how an Agile approach to CMMI would look like. Getting Agile is difficult. Getting above CMMI Level 2 the same. Marrying the two must be an extremely challenging journey!

I have used CMMI a lot, and I have always regarded CMMI to represent “the right side” of the agile manifesto. There is nothing in CMMI that encourage you to “do as little planning and analysis as possible” or have self-managed, self-organised feature teams. On the other hand, there should be nothing stopping you from doing this either.
I think the main problem is that most organisations out there is LCPBCs. I can not see how these guys will make it..

By: Sameh

Sameh — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:36:49 +0000

I agree with what you said. CMMI has never restricted the use of certain practices.

Also, LCPBC can obtain the level without making the accomplishment. I think this applies to other best-practices (e.g. ISO).

Another point, how the process improvement is managed (OPF, OPD) in my view is critical to gaining results rather than certificates.