Re: Versions of SEI CMM

[Eoin@copse.demon.co.uk (Eoin Woods)]

In article <369e08$an8@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
           dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM "David Weller" writes:

> Yes, I believe there is.  The new CMM will include negative numbers,
> to account for the practices of several large software houses,
> particularly those in the personal computer market.  The holdup, it
> is rumored, is just _how many_ negative numbers to use.  Given the
> state of practice in many American programming shops, the current
> value is at -18, but the final decision is on hold -- there appears
> to be some discussion about adding a few more values below that now
> that the findings from the Microsoft survey have come in.
> 
> (Smiley should be contextually evident)
On this subject (of -ve CMM ratings!) I vaguely seem to remember a
humourous paper in (I think) Software Engineering Notes that presented
a new CMM with negative levels!

I can't find it now - does anyone know where it is?? 

Eoin.
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