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h e A bout the time Fred Brooks was warning us there was not likely to be a single, "silver bullet" solution to the essential difficulties of developing software 3, Watts Humphrey and others at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) were busy putting together the set of ideas that was to become the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software. 1 The CMM adopted the opposite of the quick-fix silver bullet philosophy. It was intended to be a coherent, ordered set of incremental improvements, all having experienced success in the field, packaged into a roadmap that showed how effective practices could be built on one another in a logical progression (see "The Capability Maturity Model for Software" sidebar). Far from a quick fix, it was 1 CMM and Capability Maturity Model are service marks of
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