CMM appraisal business is a big time racket going on.markos wrote:here is an article on SEI CMM ratings from CIO magazine
http://www.cio.com/article/32138/Softwa ... ype?page=1Like gartner and TPI that vina quoted, SEI is also very reputable....After a few initial niceties, the executive leaned across the table to Smith and another lead appraiser who had accompanied her to the meeting and asked, "How much for a Level 2?"
"That’s when I got up and left the room," Smith recalls. "The other appraiser stayed. And the company got its rating."
....
Indeed, CIOs who look to CMM for guarantees won’t find them, says Rick Harris, director of application development for OnStar, a division of GM that provides communications inside the company’s vehicles. He recalls confronting a manager from one of his CMM Level 5 offshore outsourcing companies who did not know how to do a testing plan for software. "My people had to train him to do it," he says. On another occasion, Harris’s staff discovered that the offshore provider had fallen far behind schedule in one of its projects but had not told him. "You’d think a Level 5 company would have told me months before that the schedule was slipping and we needed to do something," he says.
Sometime, I get a feeling that it was designed by goras to keep us Indians busy. It has ended up killing productivity big time. In some places the daily nagging by QA process Nazis is alarming.
Rather rude, but to the point. A fallacy (displayed by many here on BRF as well) as that every business is devoid of ethics. It is just not true. Fraudalent business practices are simply not sustainable.vina wrote:Hello ? . I am not talking about your company's ethics and your resume, which may fall under "most". I am talking about some specific companies, where if you or someone else on your behalf puts in false resumes or misrepresents in a bid , you are fired. Got it?Most of these companies have questionable ethics ... Most of these companies do doctor resumes of candidates