CMMI and Atern
Atern is the new release of the DSDM project delivery framework. It represents a significant evolution of DSDM, adding clarity and brevity to much of the material presented. It continues to emphasize the key elements which have always been central to DSDM - agility, iterative working, incremental delivery, time-boxing, alignment to business need and high quality. CMMI presents a model of industry best practices for software,
systems and hardware engineering. The model is used by many organizations to
measure the quality of their development processes and prioritize and drive
process improvement.
The two standards have the same objective - to describe how to deliver
systems in a useful and effective way. Yet the CMMI is often considered
radically different in approach. Atern presents a development process
framework from which project centred life-cycles can be created and
performed. CMMI presents a model of best-practices - a model which is
deliberately lifecycle independent.
This paper compares the strengths of the two approaches and seeks to
identify when they may best be used by organizations to improve their
systems delivery. It looks for areas where the approaches are complementary
and can be used in combination to speed process improvement. Finally, the
scope and coverage of the two models is compared more comprehensively to
identify strengths and weaknesses.
Speakers
David Piper , Consultant, Lamri
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