How many different ways are there to implement CMMI?
Infinite, but 2 are most common. There’s what we call the blunt-object (or silo’d or stove-piped) approach, which is, unfortunately, what seems to be the most common approach. In this approach CMMI is implemented with the grace and finesse of a heavy, blunt object at the end of a long lever — impacting development organizations and project managers’ collective craniums. And then, there’s the reality-based approach. In which, processes are implemented in such a way that project personnel may not even know it’s happening. Can you guess which one we advocate? The blunt-object approach resembles what many process improvement experts call “process silos”, or “stove pipes”. This approach is also often implemented *to* a development team *by* some external process entity with brute force and very extreme prejudice. So, not only does the blunt approach employ some very unsavory techniques, subjecting its royal subjects to cruel and unusual process punishment, it also (in its design) is charac
Infinite, but 2 are most common. There’s what we call the blunt-object (or silo’d or stove-piped) approach, which is, unfortunately, what seems to be the most common approach in our observation. In this approach CMMI is implemented with the grace and finesse of a heavy, blunt object at the end of a long lever — impacting development organizations and managers’ collective craniums. This is most commonly found among organizations who care not one wit about actual performance improvement and only care about advertising their ratings. And then, there’s the reality-based approach. In which, processes are implemented in such a way that work and service personnel may not even know it’s happening. Can you guess which one we advocate? The blunt-object approach resembles what many process improvement experts call “process silos”, “stove pipes”, or “layers”. This approach is also often implemented *to* a development team *by* some external process entity with brute force and very extreme prejudi
