What is CMM (was Re: Plan 9 license)

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:24:42PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Angelo Schneider wrote:

<...>

> > Most propritary software organizations are on CMM level 1. 
> 
> What is "CMM"?  What is "CMM level 1"?

CMM is an acronym for the Capability Maturity Model, a metric of
software development process sophistication applied to an organization
as a whole, developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie
Mellon University.  

CMM level one is roughly equivalant to "Thog invent square wheel.  No ask
no one for advice.  No remember why square wheel no work last time."

For a more conventional definition of CMM levels, see:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/cmm.sum.html

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