Ken Orr wrote ( in Cutter IT Journal Vol.3, No. 7 ):

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Quadrant One: No Practice


Quadrant One (Q1), in our worldview, contains those organizations just getting by. By and large, this quadrant corresponds roughly to CMM Level 1 organizations. They don't expend very much effort in their software activities, and they don't get much return in terms of knowledge.

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Quadrant Two: Worst Practice


Organizations that fall into Quadrant Two (Q2) represent those that have the current worst practice -- they expend a lot of effort, as is represented by the amount of effort or documentation that they produce, but they seem to be just going through the motions. Q2 organizations are not getting much from their effort.

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