Michael writes:
“As one of the few people who has read the CMMI book from cover to cover, here’s what I think: In process-speak, the notion of maturity is backwards. [...] A mature person is one who is highly conscious of when it’s appropriate to follow rules and when to break them. A mature person is largely self-guided. Only in exceptional circumstances does a mature person need to refer to or appeal to a rulebook at all. In such cases, the issue is that someone believes that the rulebook isn’t working, and in such cases, consensus between mature individuals and organizations—not the rulebook itself—makes the determination as to what should happen next. Mature people know that rulebooks need to be interpreted.”
He sums it up by noting that:
“A mature process should encourage risk-taking and mistakes while taking steps to limit the severity and consequence of the mistakes, because without making mistakes, learning isn’t possible.”
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please help me. what is CMMI? I’m curious, your comments this week are especially reflective, it seems. You must be experiencing a new step in your maturity :); maybe, like reading the Bible, they are ‘just what I needed to hear’. It’s been a tough month at the office :) Transitions are hell.