Here is the paper and the presentation slides that I presented today at the Agile 2005 conference.

Download Stretching Agile to Fit CMMI Level 3 - the story of creating MSF for CMMI Process Improvement at Microsoft [Paper PDF 342K] [Presentation PDF 829K]

I have to say that I was very pleased to see the room full - there is so much great stuff at the conference and to get 30 or 40 people for a CMMI experience report was a really good turnout. The audience also really seemed to like the presentation and greatly appreciated the work we've been doing to articulate the intent of the CMMI and make agile software development practices acceptable to the appraisal community.

[Update: Dec 14th 2005. I got some review comments from Jon Gross at the SEI. I've incorporated most of Jon's comments and issued an updated version of the paper 1.6]