Certification and Adaptation of a Process

Since the ISO 900x wave, a lot of enterprise-wide software development processes have been certified. A certified software development process does not necessarily contradict an agile process, provided that the certification does not result in stagnation.

However, as it has often been observed in practice: Certification leads most often to paralysis. Certification only records the status quo. But innovations do not evolve by sticking to something. Innovations evolve by breaking rules.

It is not the intention of certification to introduce stagnation, but every so often, people who pass the certification are so happy that they ...