Appendix 3. Sustainable Software Development and the CMM
The misconception among many commercial software developers is that process discipline in software development (such as the CMM) is incompatible with fast-moving development processes such as XP. A similar misconception among many process-oriented people—CMM or otherwise—is that developing software quickly is tantamount to chaos. If these two views persist, they will keep excellent development teams from realizing the benefits of structured process improvement, and likewise keep larger organizations from looking at alternative development methods. [Glazer 2001]
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) was developed by the Software Engineering Institute as a way to describe the maturity of a software ...
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