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Chapter 2
Te c h n i q u e s t o I n c re a s e
Agility in CMMI
Mature Organizations
Scenario:
Yo u a r e a l a r g e C M M
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/ CMMI process mature organization. The good
news is that you already have documented processes, have been through a formal
CMMI appraisal, and have been appraised at a high CMM/CMMI level (3, 4, or 5).
But internally you are hearing complaints from your workforce, including: “The
company processes don't help me do my job,” or “The company processes require me
to do extra work that isn't adding value,”
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or “We need to increase our process
agility to respond more rapidly to changing customer needs.” You'd like to make
your processes more Agile to help position your company to be more competitive in
the future, but you are afraid of making changes that could put your CMMI compli-
ance
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at risk. So what can you do? What options do you have?
1. CMM refers to a precursor maturity model to the CMMI that focused only on software.
2. In this topic when I use the term “value,” I mean usefulness with respect to achieving business objectives.
3. In this topic, the phrase “CMMI compliant” means “achieving the intent of the practice.”
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