No one can argue with the goals of process improvement – effective, repeatable, measurable processes that keep improving over time and making "better, faster, cheaper" a reality. Nor can anyone argue with many of the common-sense tenets of today's agile development methods. However, the misconceptions surrounding capability maturity models and agile development and the common abuses of their implementation cause many to discount one or the other. Even many who see value in both view them as conflicting and would not consider trying to do both at the same time.

We are proud to offer this special complimentary white paper co-authored by CMMI Software Engineering Institute (SEI) – affiliated experts and Agile Development Methods (ADM) experts. The premise of this white paper is not only that both have value, but that there is a way to employ both such that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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