An Embarrassing, Yet Rewarding, Ending to a Previous Column

摘要

This is an embarrassing column to write. It's a sequel to my now-long-ago December 1998 column, in which I took the position that schedule pressure was the undoing of the software world, and that no amount of classic software engineering—including the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM)—had the power to undo that. That column resulted from my consulting visit to a company where all of that seemed, at first visit, to be true.