Two Pillars Protocol — A maturity model for AI-era software engineering

Software engineering has had maturity models for forty years. CMMI told organizations whether their processes were repeatable. ISO/IEC 33000 told them whether quality was measurable. Pöppelbuß & Röglinger (2011) gave the field a methodology to evaluate the maturity models themselves. None of them speak the language of the engineer who, last Tuesday, dispatched four agentic flows in parallel, gated three of them with tests, killed one because the spec was wrong, and shipped the surviving mer...