The new Technical Note from the SEI which I co-authored has been causing a stir. My friend Adail Retamal has translated some of the somehwat cynical commentary from Brazilian agile and XP discussion lists. I'm excited to see so much debate on this and read these wonderfully creative comments...

Well, after some have found the Agile CMMI idea nice (this is a sign of the end times) , I can only propose an AgileWaterfall 2009 conference.

Some of the themes could be:
- Agility and Bureaucracy: get the best of both
- Waterfall made Agile: just burn out the documentation
- Agility with Control: Henry Ford has done it a century ago!
- XMMI (eXtreme CMMI): the 12 practices revisited under CMMI
- The CMMA Model: How Agile are You?

See how the first XCMMI practice would look like:

Pair Everything: Why only pair programming? Let's expand this agile
practice: Pair Analysis, Pair Design, Pair Project Monitoring and
Control, Pair Requirements Management, Pair Organization Process
Definition, Pair Quantitative Project Management, Pair Decision
Analysis and Resolution, etc. As you can see, with XCMMI, we have a
lot more pairs than with the regular XP.

If you send me enough good ideas, we'll even build a site like the waterfall'2006.

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hehehe "Pair Decision Analysis and Resolution"

Some other ideas:
- Taskboard CMMI: all your documents printed and exposed on a white board visible to everyone.
- Daily meetings: 15 minutes every day... for every process.
- Chart burndown. Let's show all the metrics in a bunch of burndowns!

And so on :D

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Extreme Waterfall:

Just 4 Values, 12 Practices, 5 Years and 12 million dollars!

Values (aka, The Cobra Kai system):

Fear - code is dangerous, code is your enemy. Run away or hide from
code if you can. If you can't, pray. Pray VERY hard.

Silence - it is golden, gold means money and money is good. If you
can't say anything good about the system, shut up. We don't need your
negativism!

Aim - measure a thousand times and cut once. After all, systems are
very much like diamonds!

Practices

Stand-Up Coding: coding 15 minutes a day keeps tendinitis away.
Feudal CodeBase - Be the Lord of Thy Land, keep invaders at bay,
punish trespassers.
Weekly Iterations - based on Pluto's calendar.
40-Hour Weekend - times flies with pizza and cola!
Lego Design - 5 generic components is all you need to build any
system. Take a look at Assembly. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, agile+management, CMMI