Agree with you and parent poster. I remember 15 years ago or more going through CMMI certification and there was a push to get to level 3. Our company hired a c

Agree with you and parent poster. I remember 15 years ago or more going through CMMI certification and there was a push to get to level 3. Our company hired a consultant who came in every eight weeks or so to track our progress, give direction etc. On one of his visits he started interviewing engineers individually to see how things were going and I asked him what the point of it all was and I could tell he was quite taken back. But then, not surprisingly, he said to be more efficient developing software. I then asked him if he or any organization he'd worked with had ever actually tracked the time it took to implement the process, to which he answered no. Then I asked him, then how the hell do you know if any of this is making software development more efficient?