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- From: terry@asl.dl.nec.com
- Subject: Re: Appeal to SEI (was: Debugging the process)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.193911.20735@asl.dl.nec.com>
- Originator: terry@aslss01
- Keywords: "sei cmm" "sw engineering" "process improvement" "sw quality"
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- References: <1992Dec22.201249.23289@den.mmc.com> <Bzp0KE.8xL@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec28.113148.15707@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:39:11 GMT
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- Hi folks,
-
- In article <1992Dec28.113148.15707@sei.cmu.edu> mcp@sei.cmu.edu
- (Mark Paulk) writes:
-
- > What we intend the CMM to say is that an organization has to have a good
- > metrics program in place to achieve level 4... We do not say that an
- > organization cannot, or should not, have metrics in place much earlier...
- > The belief that the SEI requires that "you have to be level 4 to do
- > measurement" is a fairly widespread misconception that we have tried
- > repeatedly to correct...
-
- From the perspective of a critic, I would definitely concur that the SEI
- concept of process progress has always had a strong metrics flavor from
- the get-go. It shows up clearly in level 2, let alone 3 and 4. Indeed,
- one of my complaints was that it unclear what a level 2 organization as
- defined in early SEI materials would DO with their metrics it was clearly
- supposed to collect.
-
- You cannot do something well if you cannot see what you are doing. The
- question is more one of what metrics give insight, and what ones will
- ultimately prove illusory in terms of how much warning and insight they
- provide to bottom-line production, quality, schedule, and cost. Even
- one-man projects need metrics from that perspective.
-
- Cheers,
- Terry Bollinger
-
-
- P.S. -- Thanks to Dr. Leveson for that little jaw-dropper on concurrent
- engineering & risks of *REAL* project blowups, missile-silo-style!
-
- (Hmm... Why did that description of the dangers of everyone working
- in parallel, without well-defined definitions of how things would
- finally fit together, remind me of one or two software projects
- I've seen??)
-
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