CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement

Part IIISurviving The Passage

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we knowenough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question.This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.Desmond Morris, British anthropologist

Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze.In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, herethis instant, gone the next—life teems the earth. In quickness is truth.Ray Bradbury, American author

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.Bertolt Brecht, German playwright and poet

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary,the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical ...