<p>some time ago I did a bunch of reading in software engineering, including skimming basically every SE textbook that existed at the time. most of the material didn't click, it just seemed kind of disconnected and weird. a piece of thinking that did stick with me was the capability maturity model which is a way to characterize software shops. just sort of putting this out there since I almost never run across anyone discussing CMM / CMMI.</p><p>(figure from wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model_Integration" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capabili</span><span class="invisible">ty_Maturity_Model_Integration</span></a>)</p>
