begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:36:46AM -0800: > > On Tue, November 28, 2006 7:48 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:59:08PM -0800: > >> This has all the code words for an SEI CMM Level 0 environment. > > > > Given my experience working on or with CMMI projects, that might not > > be a bad thing. > > It's not a bad thing. It's a REALLY REALLY bad thing.
Heh. At project[-2], deployment consisted of the 3 best programmers spending 3 days 'making it work'. Classic CMM Level 0, IIRC. I got it down to 1 person spending half-an-hour. Without creating any documents or forms. Because I didn't generate any "processes", it was still, technically, Level 0 (IIRC). The problem with metrics is that instead of designing a solution to solve a problem, people end up eventually designing a solution to meet the metric. Sure, they *say* that they're trying to solve a problem, but there's intent, and then there's what actually happens. > > Still.... Heroic efforts? > > > > I don't do frantic anymore. It doesn't pay off in the long run. > > Things are messy enough at level 3.5, which is about where we are. If you're still solving the problem instead of trying to match a metric, you're doing good. More than good; you're godlike in your restraint and wisdom. > Level 0 is where I do my personal projects, and look where they turn out. I hear you. Most of my projects are "in progress [suspended]"... :-/ -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
