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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: <1992Dec16.210438.7548@netcom.com>
- Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
- References: <1992Dec4.182612.4450@netcom.com+ <18065@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:04:38 GMT
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- In article <18065@autodesk.COM> drake@Autodesk.COM (Dan Drake) writes:
- >+
- >+ Continuous process improvement is enabled by Level 5 -- In which the key
- >+ practices are Defect Prevention and Technology Innovation.
- >
- >This states precisely where the SEI departs from well established theory
- >and practice of quality management. It's a shocking statement, and
- >it's official SEI dogma: you can start to do Continuous Improvement only
- >afet you've achieved an advanced stage of enlightenment (which in fact
- >virtually no organization has ever achieved).
-
- No, you just don't get it. It doesn't mean that you can't engage in that
- activity until you've achieved a certain level in the model. It means you
- don't achieve a certain level in the model until you practice all of the
- parts of that level. Which was stated in my post. You are engaging
- in an intentional fallacy.
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