I’ve read through Scott Ambler’s IBM blog about the Agile Process Maturity Model several times, and his points are lost on me. His over engineered solution is the antithesis of agile.

I do find some comfort that Kent Beck, Dave Thomas and others are not blindly adopting it either.

IBM seems to be posturing for an APMM, but why?

My perspective on this is that if IBM manages to convince people they need their think tank and software suite to implement agile, it would be another revenue stream to add to their collection. My fear is of the damage they’ll do in the process by strangling the very fundamentals of inspect and adapt.

Let us hope they lose focus and continue tilting at agile windmills.