I've begun reporting out the June 15 special report on Agile
Development, and I just got off the phone with IBM's Scott Ambler. He
indicated the company has created an Agile Process Maturity Model,
which will be detailed in a white paper due out in the next week or so.
The maturity model defines three levels of agile process maturity. The
lowest level is implementation by small, co-located teams using point
tools for such tasks as continuous integration and testing, perhaps
using Scrum or XP for collaboration. The next level demonstrates a more
disciplined, full life-cycle approach and adds a level of governance.
The third level is what Ambler called "disciplined agile at scale."
Some critics have called this a mythical level, but Ambler details this
in a very recent blog post.
Lining up more interviews now for the rest of this report.
— David