Integrating CMMI and Agile Development: Case Studies and Proven Techniques for Faster Performance Improvement

Preface

Why You Should Read This Book

This book explains why combining an Agile approach with the CMMI¹ process improvement framework [1] is the best route to quickly achieve your business objectives² and it gives you practical and proven techniques to do it. But the book’s greatest value might lie in its insights into how real performance improvement is achieved by focusing on “repeating specific weaknesses” that tend to be unique and closely related to culture in each organization. The book also provides

• Proven alternatives to traditional approaches to implement CMMI practices that can increase your agility

• Proven criteria to help make timely and effective decisions

• Proven techniques to extend Agile methods to Systems Engineering and ...