CMM Implementation Guide: Choreographing Software Process Improvement
Editorial Reviews
Dr. Dobb's Journal
As a member of the merged company's Software Engineering Process Group, Caputo's job was to bring these groups's disparate development practices into line with those prescribed by the SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) (see The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process by the Software Engineering Institute, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54664-7). Unsurprisingly, this turned out to be more difficult than anyone had expected. Caputo has therefore done our profession a service by writing CMM Implementation Guide, a book about how to get programmers--and the organizations they work in--to make the changes that the CMM requires.
The book is relatively light on its description of the CMM itself (although the diagrams on pages 36-40 are the clearest summary of the CMM I've ever encountered). Instead, Caputo's book has chapters on such things as how to lift the spirits of developers who are feeling frustrated or bewildered as their world changes, and how to adapt the general specifications of the CMM to particular company cultures. Throughout, Caputo uses choreography as a metaphor, drawing analogies between (for example) the different ways dancers learn a new step, and the different ways in which programmers can go about adopting a new design methodology...Read more from this review. --Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobb's Journal
Watts S. Humphrey
While the CMM focus on goals and generality makes it widely applicable, this leaves the application problems largely in the hands of the users. Kim Caputo's book provides a pragmatic guideline for how to address the CMM in an organizational context. The many examples and frequent war stories make for enjoyable reading and provide practical insight into the problems and challenges ahead.
CMM Implementation Guide: Choreographing Software Process Improvement
CMM Implementation Guide: Choreographing Software Process Improvement,Kim Caputo,Addison-Wesley Professional,0201379384,Business / Economics / Finance,Computer Books: General,Computers,Programming - Software Development,Software Development,Software engineering,Total Quality Management,Computers / Programming / Software Development
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