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- From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
- Subject: Re: Is SEI's CMM being used in Anger or just Marketing?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.161631.740@sei.cmu.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec4.182612.4450@netcom.com> <1992Dec4.171757.9421@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1992Dec9.134601.29459@vitro.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:16:31 EST
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- In article <1992Dec9.134601.29459@vitro.com> mmangieri@vitro.com (Mikey) writes:
- >
- >If you believe that defining a process in the first place is an improvement
- >effort, then I agree. The level 1 organizations I have seen have no process at
- >all, or the process is so vague that no one can describe it in words. Until you
- >have something, you can't improve it.
- >
- >I don't think improvement efforts really start until level 2.
-
- I've tried to sell level two efforts by saying the management practices
- help to "stabilize" the current process. Once we figure out what we are doing
- we can then try and improve the process. However, the way we are trying
- to get to level 2 is through stabilizing the management processes and
- continuously improving them.
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