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- Path: sparky!uunet!autodesk!drake
- From: drake@Autodesk.COM (Dan Drake)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: The "immaturity" model
- Message-ID: <17985@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:57:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.192618.22594@pony.Ingres.COM+
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- daveb@Ingres.COM (Dave Brower, DBMS hack, [510] 748-3418) writes:
- + The cynical might consider the software immaturity model as a morale
- + crutch for organizations on the lower levels of the SEI maturity
- + model. Now there's somewhere lower to (not) be:
- +
- + "Hey, we made it from foolish to initial. We used to be lunatics!"
- +
- + It instantly makes most on-going concerns mid-pack rather malingerers
- + on the bottom.
-
- Yes, but look on the bright side. With respect to the TOP of the model,
- the barely real Level 4 and the purely hypothetical Level 5, the BEST
- organizations are no longer just mid-pack, but (percentage-wise) very
- close to the top.
-
- --
- Dan Drake In software, the *complete* design *is* the software!
- drake@Autodesk.com --Hugh Lamaster
-