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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Killing software and certification
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:47:34 +0200, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> declaimed the following:

>
>I've seen S/W developed by a company that was CMMI Level 5 certified. It might 
>have some use as fertilizer. That's what you get when you certify processes.

	That's about what I got out of the CMMI effort... A big (I hate to use
the redundancy here) process for defining processes for how to modify
(tailor) processes -- with nothing actually proving the software itself is
correct, only documentation that "we did what the process says to do".


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