We like Metripedia  (http://metripedia.wikidot.com/start), a kind of fan-site for IT performance metrics.  It’s an excellent source of information on various IT metrics and their sources.  The material on the site is the work of one person, but we can’t find any authorial details – if it’s you, don’t be shy – say hello!

What happens to a maturity model when it becomes too mature?  It retires.  Or, to be more accurate, it is retired.  That’s a polite way of saying that it’s taken into the desert and buried.  It happened to CMM (the Capability Maturity Model for Software) which yielded to the upstart CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration). 

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