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Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

olivier.pizzato — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:05:05 GMT

... I am interested by any experience where CMMi is not abused this way. I am not a CMM expert but I helped someone clarifying the difficulties he encountered

Re: Taylor or not

padgett-brown — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:24:51 GMT

... I think you can interpret Taylor your way, if you wish, but even the documents you linked to make it clear that the "best way" was based on observing the

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

Hillel Glazer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:34:42 GMT

Yes, Paulk didn't mention Deming or TQM specifically in CMM (for software). I'd go look at the introductory pages of Humphrey's "Managing the Software

Re: Moderator volunteers?

David J Anderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:33:32 GMT

Ha! Seems you've passed the invisible threshold and your posts are auto approved now ;-)

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

heusserm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:32:29 GMT

... Heusser ... 1) Well, the intro to CMM, page vii, assumes "that the reader has some knowledge of, and experience in, developing and/or maintaining software,

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

heusserm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:19:25 GMT

PS: You can find a discussion of measurement theory in Deming's work - "Out of the Crisis", Chapter 9, Pg 292 in my copy. This makes a "quantitatively managed

Re: Moderator volunteers?

heusserm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:12:14 GMT

I'd be happy to moderate, David. You do not need to approve this message to send to the group, though. :-) --matt

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

Hillel Glazer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:23:37 GMT

Gee thanks! I'll address your points in-line... Cheers! -->> Hillel -- Hillel Glazer, Principal & CEO Entinex, Inc. Get value from CMMI, not artifacts.(TM)

Moderator volunteers?

David J Anderson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:11:34 GMT

I need to refresh the list of other moderators for this group. If you are a regular contributor and care enough and would like to help by approving new members

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

heusserm — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:09:27 GMT

(These next couple of emails are tough) (I am trying, hard, to stick to facts here, folks. Facts. I think Hillel is a really smart guy and I would be pleased

Re: Taylor or not

heusserm — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:09:25 GMT

... This is verifiably false. See "The Principles of Scientific Managment" By Frederick Winslow Taylor, 1910 edition, page 44, "The Story of Schmidt." You can

Re: Taylor or not

Hillel Glazer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:41:20 GMT

Good points... thought what I believe was being discussed was more about how Taylor's work ended up being implemented, rather than how he came to his

Re: Taylor or not

padgett-brown — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:49:29 GMT

... Professors generally prefer that students forego an actual reading of the original sources in favor of a value-laden critiques of the unread work. All

PMI Agile community launch event at Agile 2009

classmaker — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:58:56 GMT

FYI... The Scrum Alliance will be hosting a reception during the Agile 2009 conference to celebrate the official launch of the PMI Agile community See the

Re: Time for a new charter - or outlived its usefulness

Hillel Glazer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:21:41 GMT

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Matt Heusser wrote: ... W. Taylor, the author of scientific management, .... It's not. Premise