An Agile Development Team’s Quest for CMMI Maturity Level 5
Add to calendarPragmatics is an agile development shop rated at CMMI Maturity Level (CML) 4 and striving to achieve CML 5. By maturing our agile disciplines, we feel we will not only improve the performance of our agile teams, which will ultimately benefit our agile development practices regardless of our appraisal rating, but will also lead to our being appraised at CML 5. We feel that a mature, highly disciplined agile development company rated at CML 5 will be very intriguing to potential customers looking for contractors that can deliver on time quality products. That is, we feel they will flock to us.
This experience report and accompanying session describes the steps we are taking to improve our agile development disciplines that we believe will lead to our being appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 5. We will discuss how agile and CMMI high maturity can co-exist to improve software development, management and improvement processes. The session will describe:
- Steps taken to self assess the practices of an existing agile shop.
- Steps taken to identify where the agile teams could improve their practices.
- Practices agile teams agreed would improve their agile development.
- The implementation of those practices.
- Metrics identified that can be used to identify the success of or potential problems with agile projects.
- An overview of the benefits of high maturity CMMI.
- The benefits of the co-existence of high maturity CMMI and agile development.
- The steps an established agile shop is taking to mature their agile practices and disciplines
- The steps an established agile shop is taking to achieve CMMI Maturity Level 5
- The benefits of agile and CMMI Maturity Level 5 coexistence