07 October 2004

It *is* rocket science

An interesting article on agile development being used at Lockheed Martin by a flight software development team. I liked the following line:
"Essentially, team members rely on traditional processes until they get in the way. They use the capability maturity model and concepts such as ISO, for example, but only as benchmarks for comparison and team process improvement."
In my experience it doesn't take very long before CMM and ISO start to get in the way of any project.