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- From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
- Subject: Re: Is SEI's CMM being used in Anger or just Marketing?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.210203.7119@netcom.com>
- Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
- References: <1992Dec4.035021@eklektix.com> <1992Dec4.182612.4450@netcom.com> <1992Dec7.090543@eklektix.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:02:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec7.090543@eklektix.com>
- rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
-
- >Bugger cause and effect!
-
- Good luck.
-
- >>Quality management is a Level 4 activity, in which quantitative quality
- >>goals are articulated and tracked. It is at this level that the quality
- >>of products and projects are controlled...
- >
- >Heh, heh...so, in the context already established, that most organizations
- >are at level 3 or below, you're telling us that we don't really address
- >quality until we hit level 4???
-
- No, my post explicitly stated (and the Model states) that being "at" a Level
- means engaging in all of the practices that characterize the level. It is
- expected that an org will engage in practices that are "aprt of" higher
- levels.
-
- Your claim is that the model does not address the quality of the product,
- merely the process. This is simply false. The emphasis is on process,
- but that is the case in any industry which has instituted Juran's method
- of quality.
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