CMMI or Agile-Why Not Embrace Both!

CMMI

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or Agile:

Why Not Embrace Both!

Hillel Glazer, Entinex, Inc.

Jeff Dalton, Broadsword Solutions Corporation

David Anderson, David J. Anderson & Associates, Inc.

Software Engineering Process Management

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the following individuals for their significant contributions to this report: Mike

Phillips, Sabine Canditt, Noopur Davis, Bill Peterson, Mary Van Tyne, and Barbara White. We

greatly appreciate the insights and efforts of all of these individuals.

In addition, the authors would like to recognize those who attended Consultant’s Camp 2007. Ta-

ble 1 in Section 10 of this report builds on work done in a session at that event.