Jack,
It's worse than that. A new policy just issued says that any
contractor who is going to bid for software on an ACAT-1 program
has to be SEI Level 3 or equivalent, and the policy is effective
immediately.
Problem is, no one knows what equivalent means. Sort of like
"What is the equivalent of a Ph.D.?" So, as the policy goes
into effect immediately, a team is coming together, slowly, to
try and decide what equivalent to SEI Level 3 means. Should
be interesting.
Jim Dobbins
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Jack Ring <
jring@AMUG.ORG> Wrote on
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:32:10 -0700
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 Conna Condon wrote Re: anticipating bad decisions
>
>May I use this sample in my classes? I teach strategic information
>management, and this is a great example of a modern case of
Nolan's Control
>Stage of maturity.
><grins>
You should be aware that the ADA policy decision was probably
worse than
Jim Dobbins portrays because according to FEDSIM studies in 1992
ADA proves
to be a rather inefficient way to express software constructs.
And your mention of Nolan triggered another example.
Watch the SEI's Capability Maturity Model for Software, and their
Capability Maturity Model for Systems Engineering and their Capability
Maturity model for People and their forthcoming Capability Maturity
Model,
Integrated [ ;-) now that they are a little more mature]. These
unvalidated, theoretically flawed models are used by the US Government
to
reject prospective contractors who have not spent the $50K to
get "graded."
Worse, they are now being promulgated across unsuspecting IT
shops in
non-government arenas and may be used to select contractors there,
too.
Jack Ring, 32712 N. 70th St., Snottsdale, AZ 85262-7143
480-488-4615, Cell) 602.369.4615,
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