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approaches I have seen by continually rotating some of the best people in the
organization through the PPQA group.
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5.27 Mitigating the Risk of Your CMMI Appraisal in an
Agile Organization
In this section, I provide three practical techniques used at BOND to mitigate
the risk associated with the CMMI appraisal.
TECHNIQUE
Select a CMMI lead appraiser who has knowledge or openness to learn
about Agile approaches.
One of the best mitigations is to have a lead appraiser who is already Agile
knowledgeable or at least demonstrates an openness to Agile approaches
with a willingness to learn.
TECHNIQUE
Frequent phone calls to lead appraiser.
The next step is to brief the lead appraiser on your culture and your brand of
agility, including sharing terminology and discussing early potential contro-
versial practices your organization follows. We did this at BOND through
regular phone calls with the lead appraiser conducted during the six months
prior to the first appraisal.
TECHNIQUE
Consider an incremental appraisal approach using the continuous repre-
sentation of the model.
There are a number of advantages to using an incremental approach and the
Continuous Representation of the model. We conducted a formal SCAMPI
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24. Advantages and disadvantages of this approach are discussed in Chapter 7 where we look in greater
detail at PPQA.
25. SCAMPI stands for Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement.
