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Point: The primary business driver in small, high-tech companies is time-tomarket.
Decisions must be made quickly and all relate to the bottom line.
While CMMI promotes quality by elongating the process used to develop
and deliver systems (because of preplanning and embedded checkpoint
mechanisms), time-to-market does not seem to be considered. Ignoring
time-to-market concerns is simply not practical in today??™s marketplace.
Although the public decries poor-quality systems, it seems to prefer speed
over functionality. And delivering products quickly is the lifeblood of
small organizations.
Counterpoint: This is the reason models like the CMMI were written. What
good does it do to deliver a system on time if it doesn??™t work? While small
organizations may need to consider time-to-market questions, inevitably,
if the organization cannot deliver good products, it will go out of business.
CMMI is written based on the best practices of highly mature organizations
that have used the various models and methodologies, and have
learned from them.


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