Another project
finished early and reduced the number of coding defects in final test by 38 percent.
Most organizations using Agile Methods do not report these figures because, since
they chose Agile, most do not have the rigorous measurement processes in place to
really prove these benefits. However, a CMMI Maturity Level 5 organization, with
its databases of historical measurements, process performance baselines, and process
performance models must be able to prove and defend their measures. So, we
believe that the two approaches to software development can work, and do work,
quite well together. However, like anything else, the devil is in the details. When
reading this chapter, we ask that those of you who are experts in CMMI or Agile
or both keep an open mind. There is no point in continuing turf wars. Can??™t we all
just get along?
What is Agile?
Well, if you have gotten this far in our book, and haven??™t skipped too many of the
chapters, you probably have a good idea of what the CMMI is. So, we will not
explain that.
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