I know this is ancient news in the Internet timescale, but...
Without commenting on the fraud aspect of the article, it still hurts to realize how CXOs believe a CMM certification has anything to do with the quality of the software process... As someone mentioned in a past CMM assessment recap meeting, CMM (as well as ISO 900X) is about making sure you're following the process you say you're following. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Posted by lasse on February 1, 2005 9:34:29 AM EET
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Re: CMM critique in CIO.com
Yeah, at my previous job we were bought out by a very large defense contractor with a CMM 3 rating. So, in order to make sure we also operated at CMM level 3, they gave everyone in the company 2 days training. Then declared that we were a CMM level 3 shop. Woohoo!
Comment from Darrell on February 1, 2005 4:27:34 PM EET
I worked with a level 5 certified vendor. After a little bit we realized the certification does not matter(at least with that vendor) and we had to rewrite lot of stuff due to their thousand internal process problems and turn over of employees etc.
Comment from Kishore Dandu on February 1, 2005 11:11:13 PM EET
It's easy to regress back to Tayloristic thinking once "your team" becomes "your IT organization" or "your software factory" or "your offshore center". If you're holding a CMM level 5 assessment, you're definitely not the smallest headcount in town and you probably don't know even half of your coworkers by face, let alone by name. In that setting, it's difficult to keep in mind that software development is about people first and foremost.
Comment from Lasse on February 2, 2005 12:09:57 AM EET
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