Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

12. System Development Lemming Cycle

Although the organization’s process calls explicitly for tailoring, the project team still slavishly adheres to the un-tailored standard.

Driven by CMMI, SPICE, ISO9000, or other process improvement programs, many companies set up in-house standards for their development processes. Naturally, these process models come with prescribed roles that members of the development team must fill, the activities they must perform, and the artifacts they must create. Most of the process models acknowledge that not all projects are created equal. Therefore, some of them (such as the German V-Model and the Rational Unified ...