Talk “Killing the myths: Agile and CMMI”

Speakers: Tomasz de Jastrzebiec Wykowski, Christophe Debou

Track: Project Management
Audince Level: Practitioners

The myths around Agile and CMMI have been growing due to a misinterpretation and abuse of the models. Too many times unmanaged organizations were named Agile and much too often achieving CMMI levels was causing organisations to be paralyzed with bureaucracy. This causes Agile practices and CMMI process areas to be perceived as contradicting each other. That view forces organizations to choose between agility – which allows fast adaptation to a changing environment, and process standardization – which helps to coordinate large undertakings and organizational development.

During this presentation experts from those two areas will show that an effective combination of these approaches is possible. Join Tomasz and Christophe to hear about:

- The Agile Manifesto in the light of CMMI.
- CMMI-DEV as a model for best practices in software development.
- Major Agile techniques and their relation to CMMI process areas. The process areas at maturity level 2 will be mainly covered namely Project Planning, Project Monitoring and Control, Requirements Management, Configuration Management, Process and Product Quality Assurance, Measurement and Analysis.
- Gathering evidences for CMMI Appraisal in an Agile Environment.
- Human aspect of process institutionalization.