Agile's values and practices ensure critical, long-term process success, making it an ideal partner of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework, which delivers a robust infrastructure of organization-wide, broadly inculcated continuous improvement and optimization. Together, Agile and CMMI complete each others' capabilities and can lead to fast, affordable, visible, and long-term benefits. Building on the SEI technical report
CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!, Hillel Glazer clarifies why the discord need not exist and proposes that CMMI and Agile champions work toward deriving benefit from both to exploit the synergies that have the potential to dramatically improve business performance.PDF [3622 KB]
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Published: October 2009
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