© 2005 Sixhills Consulting Ltd. P6Business Agility: Software Development OverviewStudies, in fact, show that process improvement typically does not offer substantial productivity improvement, with only 11% improvement per step on average. Process improvement does not therefore make up for inadequacies elsewhere, due to its relatively weak influenceProductivity Impact of Process ImprovementInitial(1)Initial(1)Repeatable(2)Repeatable(2)Defined(3)Defined(3)Managed(4)Managed(4)Optimising(5)Optimising(5)ProductivityChange:1 step = 11% increaseSource: CMU; IEEEContinuouslyimprovingprocessPredictableprocessStandard,consistentprocessDisciplinedprocessCarnegie-Mellon Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
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