I dropped by Hillel Glazer’s Agile CMMI blog recently while thinking about the relationship between Agile methods and ISO 9000 / TickIT.

Hillel points out that CMMI (like ISO 9000 and TickIT) doesn’t expect documentation - what it expects is evidence of a process being followed. Given this, Agile methods should not be considered de facto incompatible with CMMI or ISO 9000 and TickIT for that matter.

An article by Keith Southwell entitled Agile Process Improvement? goes into similar ground and explicitly analyzes the Agile Manifesto against ISO 9000:2000 / TickIT Guide Issue 5.0. Keith’s analysis also suggests that Agile is not incompatible with these standards although in some cases there may be a slightly different emphasis.

The December 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM focusses on Software Product Lines.

The editor writes: “The software product line (SPL) has surfaced as one of the most promising software development paradigms for dramatically increasing productivity and one of the key elements in the quest to discover new ways to use existing architectures and components.”

Articles cover topics including SPL testing, SPL Product Management and introducing SPL into an organisation.