CMMI the Agile Way in Constrained and Regulated Environments.

Today organizations are questioning if the CMMI is still relevant as they move to more popular agile approaches, such as Scrum. But many of these same organizations are also discovering that agile approaches alone are failing to provide the product quality their customers are demanding especially in constrained and regulated environments. This article employs a case study of an organization that recognized they had gone too far in abandoning their CMMI-based heavyweight processes in favor of an agile approach. The article describes how the organization rapidly put critical lite-weight practices in place-- complementing their agile approach-- that measurably improved performance in just a few months by using a combination of three frameworks; CMMI, Scrum and Essence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]