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While re-reading, I felt like this topic was introduced in a bit of a confusing way for me.

This note captures & groups together what I find myself citing from the topic.

Context

Maturity/Capability are mental models. They are also operational models. They include frameworks and heuristics used for decision making around engineering projects.

Just to be clear

❌ Maturity model = bad

✅ Capabilities model = good

1. Maturity Model

• Fixed mindset, focused on getting to a mature state then declaring yourself “done” with a journey.
  • It usually sounds like “we’ve achieved CI/CD & don’t plan in investing in that again”
  • Same energy as the guy who says “I finished FIFA” or other sports games💀
• Very prescriptive & linear:
  • Every team’s told to use the exactly sets of technologies and process.
  • There’s tradeoffs here, giving teams absolute freedom can very quickly become inefficient. Defining sensible defaults is a good place to start.

1a. Vanity metrics

Measuring vanity metrics tends to be common when operating in a maturity models environment.

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