[RKV]

Exactly. Building crap on top of a lousy foundation is not going to help. I’ve got 15 years of experience building enterprise applications and lipstick on the pig isn’t going to help.

[Myrddin]

I've been building at enterprise level since 1983. During that time I've witnessed the validity of the wisdom in the Mythical Man Month as other projects repeated the error. My current group was certified at SEI 5. We just had a company split, so the process is restarting. The SEI 3 was just recertified. SEI 5 evaluation underway. Very confident that we will be back there in a few weeks. It's mostly a matter of scheduling the evaluations. The organization is running that way already.

[Lazamataz]

I’ve got ya by 10 years, and I agree with your assessment.