Saturday, September 6, 2014

Can CMMI work for us even if our goal is to stay small and agile?

Dear CMMI Appraiser – as a 9-person start-up software company, we love our ability to be agile and turn on a dime if need be. But we don’t love seeing big government contracts go to large companies that have a CMMI rating. Can a CMMI rating work for us even if our goal is to stay small and agile? ~ Sam C

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1 comment:

Sridhar said...

The areas where small companies face issues are in areas like OPP, Technical Solutions etc.

For example, in TS, product components should have design completed, criteria developed for build/buy decisions and components evaluated against this criteria. Similarly, establishing configuration baselines, managing changes to that baseline and performing audits.

Are there resources that can help translate at a high level how these goals/practices can be addressed in an agile project? Paid resources are fine too!