Surfing the net for software engineering notes

S o f t w a r e P r o c e s s Is it really necessary to have a defined so,ware process in place before you begin software development? In today's world of rapid prototyping, COTS-based systems, and rapid time-tomarket, who has lime to follow a structured development process? I've noticed a defmite decline in the number of process articles in ACM and IEEE journals. When was the last time yon read something about the Capability Maturity Model7